"The ship is coming! The ship is coming! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
Shortly after noon, the originally quiet Bianhe River suddenly rang out with shouts from officials, and people who were by the river were driven away one by one. One after another, huge ships slowly came from upstream and finally stopped beside the bank of the Bian River.
A simple port was built next to the river embankment when it was built last year, so this time the ship can just stop at the original port.
The first ship was nearly 26 feet long. If it had been in Zhao Jun's previous life, this ship would have been 86 meters long and nearly 100 meters long!
The official ship slowly stopped at the simple port, and the wide ship plank was lowered from the bed, firmly connecting the ship to the shore, allowing people on and off the ship to get on and off the ship.
Zhou Lin had been waiting here early. As soon as the boat docked, several eunuch-looking people got off the boat.
The gray-haired old eunuch who was leading the Imperial City Department's official attire had a smile on his face when he saw Zhou Lin, and he came over with his orchid fingers raised.
"Hey! It's such an honor for our family that Minister Zhou actually came to greet us in person!"
It was obvious that Zhou Lin was not used to that affected look, but he still managed to squeeze out a smile, cupped his hands and said, "Zhou Lin has met Wang Eunuch!"
"Hey, what are you calling me, Prince? Sir Zhou can just call me Xiao Hezi. You are His Majesty's current celebrity, and our family cannot afford it." Wang He, the eunuch, said with a smile when he heard this.
Zhou Lin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Eunuch-in-law is just joking. He is all doing things for His Majesty. There is no one who is popular or not. It's been a long journey. Eunuch-in-law is probably tired. I have already made arrangements. Eunuch-in-law." Hurry up and take a rest!”
Wang He smiled and shook his head and said: "You also said, Mr. Zhou, that you are all doing things for His Majesty, so what's the point of being tired? However, our family is indeed too tired along the way. We will wait until we finish handing over to Mr. Zhou." Let’s take a rest after that.”
Zhou Lin nodded: "In that case, please leave it to your own devices."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!"
The two exchanged a few words of politeness and began to hand over. Eunuch Wang He took out the handover form, took Zhou Lin on the boat with him, and began to count the supplies.
Start with food and money, and end with various tools.
Sure enough, as Zhou Lin expected, almost all of these supplies were reduced by 20%. Looking at the smiling Wang He, Zhou Lin was silent for a moment, then took the handover list and signed his name.
When Wang He saw Zhou Lin's signature, a brighter smile appeared on his face. He raised his hand and patted Zhou Lin's shoulder and said:
"Shilang Zhou, don't blame me. When I took over, there was less stuff. The grain, gold and silver came from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Are all those tools provided by the Ministry of Industry?
No matter what it was, it was no longer what it was when it came into our hands.
So even if our family wants to send it to you completely, there is no way.
Nowadays, we don’t need to tell our family about the customs of the Song Dynasty. You also know that, please forgive me.
Zhou Lin nodded silently. How could he not know that this kind of atmosphere in the DPRK had not changed for a day or two, and he had already accepted it, otherwise he would not have signed the material handover list just now.
Seeing that he understood, Wang He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although these substances were not dug out by himself, they were handed over to Zhou Lin by his own hands after all. If Zhou Lin refused to accept them and took the matter to the next level, he would be the first to suffer.
Therefore, he still paid great attention to Zhou Lin's reaction. He was relieved from the moment he got off the boat. Fortunately, the final result was good.
After Zhou Shilang received the goods and signed his name, he could go back to report to His Majesty without any pressure.
As for the rest, it has nothing to do with me as it has nothing to do with me.
After letting go of the heavy stone in his heart, Wang He could finally rest with peace of mind. To be honest, he said he wasn't tired just now, but that was just for the occasion. Now that the handover was clear, a feeling of fatigue suddenly surged into his heart, and he yawned early. Resign.
As soon as the handover was completed, the captive miners began to unload the cargo. The nearly two hundred thousand people had a clear division of labor and quickly unloaded the first large ship with three thousand materials.
The first ship was a grain ship, and all that was unloaded was grain. The prisoners all knew that these were probably the grains they and others would receive next, so they unloaded them one by one carefully for fear of falling to the ground. These were all their rations. !
A total of twenty ships were loaded with grain and other supplies. Fortunately, there were many people, so they were all unloaded in less than two hours.
Immediately afterwards, ships carrying other supplies entered the port. This batch was full of tools, such as hoes, picks, shovels, frames, baskets and other tools.
After another hour, everyone got their tools.
The people who had the tools moved faster, and more than half of the remaining forty ships had been unloaded before the sun went down. The remaining ones were decided to be unloaded tomorrow because it was getting dark.
Since they had done work today and the food had arrived, the Huotou Army in the army directly missed it.
In the evening, there was a big bowl of gnocchi and a bowl of hot broth. Although each bowl only contained two thumb-sized slices of meat, it still surprised the prisoners so much that they all wanted to eat the whole bowl!
That’s meat!
Everyone threatens to do it for another two hours?
Then……
They were worked overtime for another hour.
Hahaha, although Zhou Lin’s surname is Zhou, he is not Zhou Papi. It’s just that the ships coming here cannot stop for too long. Most of them are official ships transporting grain to Bianjing. The daily tasks are very heavy and they cannot stop here for a long time. .
So after the final communication, Zhou Lin decided to let everyone work overtime to unload everything first.
After two hours, no one had received two more white-flour steamed buns as a midnight snack, but everyone didn't bother to eat them and stuffed them into their arms, so they hurried back to their tents to rest.
This time, no one dared to clamor for another two hours.
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There was no talking all night, and after breakfast early the next morning, embankment construction officially began.
After the solemn sacrificial discussions, the work began.
At this time, as long as you are doing a big project and there are no sacrifices, the workers will not be willing to help you, thinking that you are disrespecting the gods, and it is easy to cause accidents when doing things for you.
Therefore, it has become a practice to perform necessary sacrificial rituals before starting all large-scale projects.
The tools had been distributed as early as yesterday, and all the processes had been arranged. After the sacrifice, everyone just followed the leader's guidance and came to their positions to start building the embankment. Everything seemed to be on the right track.
Looking at the busy river embankment, Zhou Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After going through so many things, I finally started to feel special. It’s not easy!
However, Li Dingguo believes that things are not that simple.
He turned around and called someone and whispered a few instructions. The person nodded, took the note from Li Dingguo and left.
Soon, a sea turtle in the military camp jumped into the sky and flew away from the military camp.
Heyue Mansion, the headquarters of Heyue Branch of Feiyun Commercial Bank.
He Feng, the big shopkeeper who was responsible for all the operations of Feiyun Trading Company here, suddenly received a report from a clerk that there was news, and immediately asked the clerk to loosen the things.
Soon the note that had just been sent from the military camp arrived in He Feng's hands. He opened the note in his hand and looked at it. He Feng's eyes narrowed instantly, and he immediately ordered:
"Notify Huangshan Mansion to expand the area of the commercial bank ten times. In addition, the time is almost ready for the plan to be implemented. Let them act quickly. If they are delayed, let them go to Yunzhou County to find the prince to atone for their sins!"
"I understand, little one!"
The clerk nodded in agreement and quickly retreated, going to the Huangshanfu branch to start sending a message.
Soon the news from the branch reached Huangshan Mansion.
On one of the busiest streets in Huangshan Prefecture, the Feiyun Trading Company store, which was almost completed, suddenly stopped construction. Then, not long after, news suddenly came out that Feiyun Trading Company had bought the land for dozens of surrounding shops. Then the current commercial bank construction plan was revised and expanded more than ten times.
The outside of the construction site was tightly blocked with curtains by the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce. Outsiders could not see what was being done inside, but they only knew that many people were being recruited to do the work. There were constant ding-ding-dong-dong sounds every day, and they were obviously rushing to work. .
At the same time, quietly, all kinds of materials are coming to Huangshan Mansion through various channels of Feiyun Trading Company. The complete types of materials and the huge quantity are simply staggering!
At this moment, the news that Zhou Lin was starting construction finally reached the Zhao family in Heyue Mansion.
Crackling!
Amidst the sound of breaking porcelain, Zhao Ansheng's suppressed angry voice sounded out: "Where did they come from? Didn't anyone else work for them?
Who is this stubborn person who is not afraid of the revenge of my Zhao family? "
Official Zhao Yi trembled and knelt on the ground nearby. After hearing this, he quickly replied: "Master, how can those mud-legged people in Bian'an County have such courage? It is said that Zhou Lin found someone from Daxing County next door. .
It happened that there was a rebellion in Daxing County, and the Japanese army went there and captured all the 200,000 rebel miners and brought them back to build embankments. Now they have no shortage of manpower at all! "
"Daxing County! Defeat the Japanese army!"
Zhao Ansheng gritted his teeth and recited these words, and after a while he coldly ordered: "Do they think they can get past my Zhao family like this?
Haha, I will let them know who is the genius in Bian'an County!
Zhao Yi, please make arrangements immediately. Didn't they capture 200,000 rebellious miners from Daxing County and ask Huangshan Prefecture to organize people to stop their construction in the name of driving away unstable miners?
Remember, all the people must do this!
I want to see how our Minister Zhou plans to deal with this situation?
It is impossible to persuade him to do anything. It would be interesting if he dared to send troops to suppress it! "
Zhao Yi immediately echoed from the side: "The master of the family is wise! Since this, Zhou Lin has been suffering from a headache and died. If he doesn't do it, the embankment can't be repaired. If we do, we will immediately ask the officials of the entire Bian'an County to write a letter to support him in killing the people!"
See what he does! "
The master and servant looked at each other, and then showed almost identical smiles.
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(End of chapter)
