Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 184 Delivery
After leaving Fukuyama, the warship sailed with full sail and galloped in a favorable wind that was finally coming.

At this time, the surface of the river became open, and it was almost at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Yang Chao kept drawing with eyebrow pencils along the way, and recorded the landmark terrain along the way as a basis for future sailing. Unfortunately, although Yang Chao studied architecture, he knew how to draw architectural drawings and three-dimensional views, but he didn't know how to draw maps. It is just a rough drawing of the possible route map, in which the distance and so on are estimated based on the speed of the ship.

In the evening, a huge sandbar appeared in view.

The guide told Yang Chao that this sandbank is where the Chongming Shasuo and Chongming County are located.

After passing the Shasuo, there are two sandbars parallel in the middle of the river, one in the south and one in the north. The north is called Sansha, and the south is called Changsha.

At this time, the sun had already set on the river behind him, drawing pieces of golden scales, like dragon scales, and the river was like a long dragon.

However, Yang Chao didn't stop. Instead, under the guidance of the guide, he continued to move forward until he reached a sandbar in the southeast of the two sandbars of Sansha and Changsha.

This sandbar is called Nansha, and it is the last big sandbar at the estuary of the Yangtze River. There is also a small sandbar to the south of Nansha.

Nansha is also connected with several sandbars in the upper reaches of the northwest, which is probably Chongming Island in later generations, but Chongming Island in later generations has been connected into one piece, and they are all independent sandbars at this time.

There is a small village on Nanshazhou, not many people, they are all fishermen, and there is no garrison.

But on the southwestern bank of the river, there are three garrison cities in Baosan, Wusong and Liuhebao.

The guide boarded the sandbar, and the fishermen greeted him warmly, it seemed that this was not the first time he had come.

The fishermen helped to park Yang Chao's warship beside their simple pier, but unfortunately the warship ran aground on the beach.

Yang Chao rejected the fishermen's plan to invite them to go ashore, and everyone stayed on the boat, only the guide ran to the village to drink.

That night, the guide brought back a stranger.

At this time, he was short and sharp, and the sea breeze was still cold in May, but he opened his arms.

He boarded the ship at night, ordered the goods, and left in a hurry.

It didn't show up again until the next day.

Seeing this person during the day, Yang Chao realized that this person was not tall, more than 1.5 meters tall compared to the later generations, with extremely dark skin, a bit of the characteristics of Fujian and Cantonese, but his movements were vigorous and flexible, just like a cat. Yang Chao secretly compared, if he was placed in his own army, he would definitely be an elite soldier.

This person took a few more glances at the iron armor worn by Yang Chao and the others, and his eyes were a little weird. I don't know if he despised wearing iron armor for making a fuss, or he felt that Yang Chao and this group of people are not easy to mess with.

But this person boarded Yang Chao's boat carelessly, and commanded a group of fishermen to drag Yang Chao's big boat into the river with small fishing boats.

Then, together with the guide, let the boat head south.

Two miles away, there is an uninhabited sandbar, and a tall mast can be seen from a distance.

When I got closer, I saw a three-masted galleon, which looked far better than Yang Chao's warship in terms of shape and draft.

Yang Chao's warship is in front of this big ship, just like a child in front of adults.

Moreover, the big boat sat on the surface of the river like a wall, Yang Chao's boat leaned against it, and it couldn't even reach halfway up the boat.

Yang Chao reckoned that this ship might be able to pull at least 1000 loads of cargo, and the tonnage of later generations would be more than [-] tons, more than five times larger than his own warship.

"This is a sea ship!"

Yang Chao thought in his heart that it would be really big in the middle of the river, but it would be as small as a sesame seed in the sea.

The super large ship of the later generations, which can cost tens of thousands of tons, is very inconspicuous on the sea. Facing this sea ship for no reason, Yang Chao actually had a kind of awe of the sea, and a kind of pride to conquer, suddenly I want to build a big ship by myself to fight the wind and waves at sea.

"Hey, master, let's unload the goods."

The short man on the boat said to Yang Chao at this time that he was speaking Mandarin, but it wasn't Nanjing Mandarin, let alone Beijing Mandarin, and he couldn't tell where it was from.

Mandarin is actually a written language. The language of the Chinese people has changed a few years ago, but after Qin Shihuang unified the script, there are almost no major changes. Therefore, a language developed with a unified script as the core appeared. This is the official language.

However, because the languages ​​of different regions are different, and it is impossible to popularize a certain local dialect as official dialect like the later generations with large-scale information circulation, various official dialects have been formed, including Suzhou official dialect, Nanjing official dialect and so on.

All kinds of Mandarin, although they have different accents, can be generally understood because they have the same characters as the basis.

Yang Chao naturally understood the short man's words, knowing that the man's tone was a little lazy, and he didn't take Yang Chao seriously.

Guide He showed Yang Chao an apologetic smile at this moment.

Yang Chao didn't care either, he knew that these people who lived on water had nothing to do with anyone, and they didn't take anyone seriously at all.

Yang Chao felt that the other party seemed to be very sensible, so he didn't rashly let their people board the ship to pick up the goods.

"Zhao Kang, take someone to unload the cargo!"

Yang Chao asked Zhao Kang to take ten people to unload the goods, but quietly told Li Wuliu to be careful.

The opponent's big ship is condescending, which makes Yang Chao feel a sense of crisis. If the opponent attacks from the condescending position, his side's disadvantage is obvious.

However, when Zhao Kang brought the goods up one by one, the people on the ship hoisted them up with rigging. During this period, it was very smooth and there was no accident.

While the short man on board took stock of the cargo.

One hundred loads of raw silk.

One hundred dans of tea.

Three hundred dans of porcelain.

In addition, there are fabrics such as yarn and silk brocade.

Three hundred loads of various books.

One hundred tans of rice paper.

In addition, there are inkstones, inks, pens and other stationery utensils.

Among them, raw silk is the most valuable. It is 50 taels of silver in Huzhou area, and it can be sold to Japan for 600 taels of silver. 60 taels, a net profit of 100 taels.

Moreover, he only received one hundred dan of raw silk, worth 1 taels.

In fact, Japan also has tea, porcelain, etc., but before entering modern times, the Japanese admired Chinese customs very much, and rich people are keen to consume Chinese products. Therefore, Chinese tea, porcelain, and even the four treasures of the study are very popular in Japan. .

As for books, they are large in weight and take up a lot of space, but their value is not high. However, the Japanese import Chinese books all the year round, and this is a kind of task. Merchant ships may be made things difficult by the Japanese.

This is because the Japanese yearn for Chinese culture very much, but the transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, so the Japanese formed a tradition, that is, they tried their best to get books from China. At the beginning, they didn’t dare to offend Chinese businessmen, so they only borrowed books that came with them occasionally. After copying, after returning it, it slowly began to be confiscated, and later even forced the merchant to bring the book.

These books may not be trade goods, but may have been given to Japanese officials in charge of trade, or were gifts to a certain daimyo.

Nanjing is also the printing center of daimyo, so the next family asked Wang Xiao to prepare a large number of books.

Soon all the goods were sent to the big ship. The man who ordered the goods stamped his seal on a meeting ticket and handed it over to the guide of the He family. Home to revolving funds.

A shipment of tens of thousands of taels of silver, cash delivery is really inconvenient, if there is no middleman like a broker, it is really inconvenient.

In the end, the stalwart man grabbed the rope on the boat and climbed onto the big boat screaming like a monkey.

The guide of the He family shook his head and said to Yang Chao: "Master Yang, let's lift the anchor!"

Yang Chao nodded to Lao Zhang.

Lao Zhang asked people to lift the anchor, and led people to hold the poles to support the big ship to prevent collisions. He propped the big ship several feet away, and then raised half of the sail. Mainsail, Yang Fan returns.

Finally, the delivery was finished, and a stone fell from Yang Chao's heart.

I didn't expect the delivery to be so smooth this time, and all preparations were useless. Although it is not a good thing to encounter an accident, but it is too peaceful now, which also makes Yang Chao feel a little regretful, as if he is still vaguely expecting some accident to happen.

But there are also some gains. This road has been opened, connecting Nanjing, one of the largest industrial and commercial cities in the Ming Dynasty, and connecting the sea merchants in the East and West, and Yang Chao will be able to eat the golden waterway of the Yangtze River in the future.

(End of this chapter)