Only time can heal the pain. After a month of depression, Qingyuan City finally recovered from the huge pain. Business began to develop again, and the overflow population also returned to this land.
The government can only provide a safe business environment. After Si Fangxing was dismissed, the position of the Military and Horse Supervisor was temporarily vacant. However, Duan Peng personally managed it, taking over all the military, legal and political power, and personally deployed the city's defenses.
Zhao Jiaban worked hard to build 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 return to its original prosperous appearance as soon as possible!
In a month, the sad atmosphere has dissipated a lot, and many private houses have slowly begun to be renovated. Many migrant workers have also poured into the city, destroying and erecting, and the city has begun to regain its vitality.
Several city gates have been strengthened to the highest and thickest level since the birth of this city, which is comparable to the majestic ancient city in the north. The roads in the city have also been destroyed due to a large number of buildings, starting the process of re-planning!
The most seriously injured person in this war was the street in front of the state capital. Almost all the buildings were destroyed, and a large number of houses were bombed or burned. Duan Peng listened to Zhao Xiaopin's suggestion, why not take this opportunity to build a A thousand-year-old city that can be passed down for thousands of years!
The planning model of a new city was slowly born, with Weiyuan Tower as the central axis, a main street to the north and south, and east-west streets to the left and right. Under this division, the city is divided into four areas. Each of the two avenues can pass six people at the same time. A carriage, even the most spacious Yudao Street in Bianjing is only of this size. Only Luoyang, the sacred capital, and Chang'an, the capital of Xijing, had such avenues a hundred years ago. Duan Peng did not expect that such a huge thing would happen to this city in his hands. The change!
Several streets have almost been renovated, and the only ones left are a few temples under construction! And several buildings will go through thousands of years of wind and rain and be passed down to future generations. No one will know this, only Liang Chuan will be filled with emotion!
The basic layout of the second largest port in the East was actually set in this war. In the next thousand years, only minor adjustments were made to the details. The main layout of the city has never changed. If there is a monument recording In this period of history, Liang Chuan's name may be found, but the names of small people are often not left on it. It is very likely that there will be Duan Peng and Han Qi. .
Liang Chuan didn't care about this. All he wanted was to keep a low profile as much as possible. He knew better than anyone the principle of shooting the first bird. The more eyes that paid attention to him, the more restrictions he would receive. If he wanted to go overseas, he would If you want to find a place where no one is around, it will be easier to secretly develop your own power!
Murong Chao's attack this time caused huge losses to Liangchuan. The port may not be able to recover in a few years, a large amount of income cannot be obtained normally, and business people also suffered heavy losses.
The biggest one is the Pu family.
Pu Geng's son was tied up in Longhai by Liang Chuan. He went crazy first and ended up unknown. He most likely died in a foreign land. This news reached Pu Geng's ears and drove the old man crazy. He was willing to give up his family wealth and die with Liang Chuan. !
After a great battle, the Pu family's foundation for the new year was completely wiped out.
Liang Chuan didn't know that his move also changed the national destiny of the Song Dynasty.
According to the clues of time, more than three hundred years later, Yuan soldiers forced Song Ting to the southeast. The Pu family betrayed the Zhao royal family for glory and wealth, and gained a hundred years of favor. It was not until Lao Zhu came to power that the Pu family was After being destroyed, Liang Chuan changed this period of history hundreds of years in advance. I don’t know what kind of butterfly effect it will cause later.
After the Pu family disappeared, countless people took note of their spice business!
Liang Chuan only knew that spices were profitable before, but he didn’t know why spices were profitable, let alone how profitable spices were!
The Japanese invaded Qingyuan and burned and destroyed countless things, but Duan Peng recovered all the losses just from the confiscated Pu family!
For a hundred years, the Pu family has monopolized all the shipping routes for transporting spices to and from Nanyang. The Pu family can only identify the fragrance of spices on the sea. If nothing else, the cost of this stuff is high. Most people can't even eat it, and the market will not open up. It is easier to sell it in the sea. Being targeted by pirates at sea.
The Pu family has been doing business for generations, and they have carefully cultivated their own power. They have the ability to protect their business routes. Look at this battle, the Pu family can control the situation on the field!
At the port of Qingyuan, although the Pu family and Liang Chuan did not deal with each other, Pu Geng did not know that Liang Chuan was the real culprit who killed his son Pu Shouchang, so he still relied heavily on Liang Chuan in business! The warehouses and venues they rent are the largest among all merchants!
Some people compare spices to plants with peculiar flavors in heaven. In this world, people rely on spices to experience the taste of heaven!
The star of the show is cinnamon!
Cinnamon can keep meat from rotting. The Arabs are the ancestors of the Pu family. They have 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 cinnamon tree can The fruit will never die.
In Arabia, people used cinnamon to keep the corpses of the dead from rotting. Just like the emperors of the Han Dynasty, they liked to pursue jade to wrap the corpses to keep them from rotting. Only the people at the top can afford this stuff, and the price is natural It’s also expensive!
There is also pepper. In the Tang Dynasty, the wealth of an official's family was not measured by how much gold and silver he had, but by how much pepper he had hidden in his family! This is a symbol of wealth!
Pepper is described in Western medicine books as follows: As long as the wiping agent is suitable, and then a few drops of pepper oil are applied to the private parts, it can cure male malaise!
Isn’t this the legendary divine oil? Wouldn’t that make thousands of gay men crazy? Although it is false advertising, the folk remedies give this crop a mysterious color!
Of course, the most colorful spice among spices is chili pepper. Liang Chuan has already obtained it. Although it is used in making fish head hotpot and pickling pickles, Liang Chuan does not want to announce this crop to the world too early. He also wants to make money, but now There are so many ways to make money, and you even have to make money by farming and selling peppers!
The Arabs started from the Red Sea and passed through South Asia to the Southeast Asia. The final destination was to return to the Red Sea or go north to the Central Plains. This was a complete route!
For other nations, this route would be vast and unknown to them. There are countless storms and dangers on the sea, and they don't know what they will encounter ahead, so no one would open such a route.
The Arabs are different. They need spices so much, and they have opened up destinations and routes long ago. The spices are produced in several islands in the Southeast Asia, and the one among them that is rich in cinnamon is Sri Lanka!
This route is prepared for the rise of the Arabs! The Pu family also came to the Central Plains following the opening of this road, and have taken root here ever since! The Arabs generally push spices back, except for the Pu family who settled in the Central Plains. It was they who finally monopolized this road!
As soon as the Pu family fell, countless sea ships were immediately sent to Nanyang!
This piece of meat is so big and so flavorful!
As long as you can ship back a shipment of spices, no matter how good the quality is, you can almost earn back several times the profit!
Merchants at sea were surprised to find that the route above the Yizhou Strait had changed and was not peaceful!
There were too many Japanese on the sea. Their boats were not big, but they patrolled the sea all day long. They robbed people when they saw them, threw them into the sea when they saw people, and took away all the goods! With one operation, the Japanese completely messed up the market situation at sea!
The unrest on the sea has caused the freight and cost of shipping 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 and domineering, the south does not dare to come down. There are also a small number of Japanese on Yizhou Island who are causing chaos in the Yizhou Strait, and the southern shipping route is completely messed up!
The more this happens, the less it can stop the merchants' desire for money. The merchants know that blood and fire can bring more profits. As long as they don't die, the trip will mean wealth!
The Japanese are very poor and poorly equipped. This is the consensus of everyone!
In this era, people are not very cold towards Japanese people. On the contrary, they are the lowest class of people, just like monkeys!
No one is afraid of fighting the Japanese! The only thing you have to worry about is that you need more people and better equipment. It will definitely be a tailwind situation!
When the Song Dynasty fought with outsiders, these points were always in place! More people, better equipment! The ships are full of sailors armed to the teeth! They look down on these Japanese beggars from the bottom of their hearts. In the face of money, the Japanese will die!
Sun Hopu and Shitou were far away in Bianjing. Their father-in-law was Xia Song, the prime minister of the dynasty. Their business had expanded to all corners of the world, and their money had long been exhausted. Life seemed to have lost a little meaning at this moment. Every day in the Forbidden City, There are dignitaries who come to curry favor with them, but the two of them don't have the passion that they had when they followed Liang Chuan and fought to conquer the world. .
Especially this time Chen Xichun gave birth to a prince and summoned Xia Song into the palace.
This huge favor made Xia Song suddenly feel not the emperor's favor, but fear!
His life has reached its extreme point. When the moon is full, it will suffer losses and when the water is full, it will overflow! Xia Song has reached a point where he can't get any worse in his life. He will only go downhill in the future. He will no longer be able to think about things that he shouldn't think about!
Only at this moment did he think of two words - retreat!
Now that he thinks about it, he is glad that he did not marry Xia Xue into a wealthy family or put Xia Xue into a big family, but chose a businessman for him!
Now think about how true this idea is!
That night when Xia Song came back from the palace and looked at the five jars of golden melon seeds, his first thought was to call Sun Houpu to him!
"You have been married to Xia Xue for many days, but you have not returned to your father. It is extremely unfilial to bring this daughter-in-law to them. From now on, I don't ask you to stay with me every day. If you want to go home, go back. !”
