Pirate Song

It happened that Liu'er brought another bottle of wine to Gao Huaiyuan. After so many days, Liu'er unconsciously began to regard Ji Xiancheng as Gao Huaiyuan's own. After hearing Ji Xiancheng's words, he smiled and responded.

Said: "Mr. Ji doesn't know yet! Our young master knows a lot of things? He doesn't just know how to make this kind of thing! If you want to talk about it..."

Gao Huaiyuan quickly winked at Liu'er. Liu'er reacted immediately and quickly stopped talking. She didn't dare to continue talking. She also knew that she had let something slip unknowingly today, so she quickly went around it.

Regarding this topic, Gao Huaiyuan said: "Master! Ruohu's fever has begun to subside. He just said he wanted to drink water! He looks a little better!"

Gao Huaiyuan quickly stood up and ran out: "I'm going to check on Ruohu's condition. Mr. Ji has to excuse me. Please drink by yourself first!"

Liu'er also quickly picked up the hem of her skirt and ran out with Gao Huaiyuan. Ji Xiancheng played with the telescope in his hand and said to himself with a smile: "Now I am more and more interested in you, Mr. Gao. You

What other surprises can it bring me? It seems that this trip to Daye will definitely be worthwhile. I’m really looking forward to it! Haha!”

Li Ruohu's injury really improved a lot after boarding the ship. After the bumps of the vehicle were eliminated, his pain was lessened. The medicine was obviously working. The fever he had suffered in the past few days was getting better, and his face looked a little better.

After taking the red blood on board the boat, Gao Huaiyuan ordered the boatman to make fish soup. He drank it bit by bit after he had been unconscious for several days, and then mashed the fish meat and fed it to him. Now Li Ruohu's injury has finally stabilized.

Gao Huaiyuan squatted next to Li Ruohu and called his name softly. After a while, Li Ruohu's eyelids trembled a few times, and then he slowly opened his eyes.

"Master..." Li Ruohu called softly.

Gao Huaiyuan held Li Ruohu's hand tightly and shook it vigorously. After a long time, he choked and said: "I told you that you will be fine! Just come back! Just come back!"

This sentence seemed very pale at this time, but Gao Huaiyuan could not find a more suitable word. Li Ruohu nodded with tears. At this time, he could see in Gao Huaiyuan's eyes what true brotherhood is.

Don’t abandon, don’t give up! Gao Huaiyuan had told them this sentence a long time ago. Now he finally understood this sentence. In Gao Huaiyuan’s eyes, these helpless orphans are not tools, but

Being treated like a brother by him is enough for them.

After boarding the ship from Qingyang County, they never encountered any danger or anything like that. They went upstream all the way. Although the walk was not fast, it was very pleasant. Gao Huaiyuan and others also got a full rest.

The wounds gradually began to heal, and Li Ruohu's body became stronger day by day. He could walk a few steps before arriving in Ezhou.

Along the way, Gao Huaiyuan consciously gained weight. He fished every day in his free time, and chatted with Ji Xiancheng when he had nothing to do. The two sides got along more and more harmoniously.

Although Ji Xiancheng has not fully understood Gao Huaiyuan, through these days of conversations, he can basically see that Gao Huaiyuan seems reckless, but in fact he is a thoughtful person in many aspects, which is somewhat in line with his age.

It's not quite consistent, and Ji Xiancheng is even more convinced that Gao Huaiyuan will definitely do a great job in time. According to Ji Xiancheng's words borrowed from the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, this kid is not a thing in the pond. Sooner or later, he will become a blockbuster, so he is determined

Ji Xiancheng's idea was to follow Gao Huaiyuan all the way to see what he could do!

During this period, they encountered naval fleets on the river many times, which gave Gao Huaiyuan a feast for his eyes, and he also intuitively understood the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty navy. Judging from the naval fleets they encountered during this period, it was only

He was the commander-in-chief of the naval force in Ezhou, and he was equipped with at least 200 warships. These naval forces were called Suojiang Army by the Song people. They were so large that according to Ji Xiancheng, who was familiar with state affairs, there were at least nearly 20 warships in various places.

The total strength of the navy army is at least 70,000 to 80,000.

These naval forces were different from those of later generations. They not only conducted surface operations. On the way, Gao Huaiyuan also saw a drill of a naval landing raid. Large vehicles and ships covered small boats and loaded the naval forces ashore. Such an attack

The method is quite similar to that of later generations of Marine Corps. They concentrated their forces on boats, maneuvered on the water, and then carried out surprise attacks at the enemy's weak points. At least this kind of combat thinking was quite advanced in this era. No wonder he was not good at water.

The Jin Kingdom, which had been fighting for more than a hundred years, had been unable to break through the natural chasm of the Yangtze River. The navy of the Southern Song Dynasty should not be underestimated!

Although the Southern Song Dynasty navy played a vital role in the Southern Song Dynasty's efforts to stabilize the area south of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, it cannot be said that they did not have some limitations. After all, such a Jianghuai navy was always a defensive force no matter what.

Restricted by rivers and waterways, defense was okay, but offense was of little use. Especially after the Jin people occupied the hinterland of the Central Plains, the important canal systems in the north and south gradually became idle and blocked due to the hostile relationship between the two countries.

For a time, the North-South Grand Canal and the Bianhe River were destroyed with the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to prevent the Jin army from taking boats down the Bianhe River, they were completely destroyed and silted up to the ground.

Although this prevented the Jin army from going south, it also caused a lot of trouble for the Song army to go north. The Song army was mainly infantry and relied far more on logistics than any other country in this era. When sending troops for the Northern Expedition, logistics support

In addition to relying on mules and vehicles for transportation, most of them relied on water boats for transshipment in order to supply the Song Army. Once the Song Army left the navigable waterways, they would suffer from a shortage of supplies.

Incapable of attacking, even if they win, it will be difficult to maintain, which is one of the factors that caused the Song army to be unable to make the Northern Expedition.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't know much about these things. Ji Xiancheng told him in the past few days. Ji Xiancheng knew much more about the situation in the Song and Jin countries than Gao Huaiyuan, and Gao Huaiyuan learned something more.

After a period of sailing, the ship finally arrived in Daye County. Gao Huaiyuan took everyone ashore and returned to his one-third of an acre of land.

After everyone set foot on the land of Daye County, they all felt like going home. Gao Huaiyuan felt that Daye was his real home now. Most of his properties are now here, and this is where he is.

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Breathing the fresh air, Gao Huaiyuan patted Li Ruohu who was lying in the car and said: "You go back to Daye County first, and arrange Mr. Ji at his old house first! You must take good care of Mr. Ji's daily life! I'll go

I’ll go to Ezhou and then rush back! I’ll tell you everything after I get back!”

Li Ruohu nodded and wanted to get up and say goodbye to Gao Huaiyuan, but Gao Huaiyuan pinned him to the car, and then told Liu'er: "You can take care of Mr. Ji at the old house first, and wait for me to come back!"

Although Liu'er was a little reluctant to let go, she still nodded obediently. She let something slip on the way, and she is still a little uneasy, fearing that Gao Huaiyuan would be angry.

"Mr. Ji! I have to go to Ezhou to handle some personal matters first. I won't accompany you back to Daye County for the time being. Liu'er and the others will properly arrange your husband's daily life. I will return to Daye soon in three or two days.

County, how about walking around with your husband when the time comes? I'm very rude, I hope you'll forgive me!" Gao Huaiyuan walked to Ji Xiancheng's car again and said to Ji Xiancheng who was getting out of the car.

"Master Gao, please help yourself! Ji will wait for you in Daye!" Ji Xiancheng couldn't ask Gao Huaiyuan what else he had to do in Ezhou, so he said goodbye to Gao Huaiyuan.

After bidding farewell to Ji Xiancheng, Gao Huaiyuan parted ways with them and headed for Ezhou. Huang Zhen's Zuixianlou head office was located in Ezhou. Now it was time for Huang Zhen to return to Shaoxing.

When Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Ezhou, the place was still bustling with people and a lively scene. Except for the troops and horses mobilizing from the Ezhou camp outside the city, the city was basically not affected by the war. Business travelers came and went frequently, making it very prosperous.

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At least this also shows the confidence of the Song people. Most Song people did not feel overly panicked about the Jin army's southern invasion. Psychologically, the Song people no longer took the Jin people seriously. This is also true.

It has a lot to do with the decline of the Jin Kingdom over the years.

After entering the city, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but think of the incident where he led people to rescue Zhao Tong in the prefect prison nearly a year ago. Although he heard that Ezhou was in chaos for a while afterwards, it was quickly suppressed by the prefect's Yamen.

, after all, this kind of thing does not look good on the prefect’s face, not to mention that Zhao Tong, who was rescued, is not an important person. Soon this matter was forgotten in Ezhou. I am afraid that only Gao Huaiyuan still remembers it at this time.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't know how many people were implicated and lost their jobs.

Now Ezhou's Zuixian Restaurant has become the largest restaurant in Ezhou. Because of the reputation of Shenxianzui, most wealthy people regard Zuixian Restaurant as the most upscale restaurant in Ezhou. If you want to entertain guests here, you can't make a reservation in advance.

It's impossible to get a seat!

And after Zuixianlou gained a foothold, it gradually relaxed the sales of Shenxian Zui, increasing it from the original one hundred pots per day to two hundred pots, and also launched a slightly lower-end Shenxian Zui, which quietly eroded it.

Most of the high-end market has been occupied, and the old big restaurants now have no choice but to condescend to do mid- to low-end business. The entire Ezhou wine industry has basically been reshuffled, and Zuixianlou has firmly established itself.

Huang Zhen, a businessman, is quite smart. He has always maintained a good relationship with the government and managed the important official figures in Ezhou comfortably. Even though Zuixianlou continued to squeeze the market and caused dissatisfaction with other restaurants,

No one dares to come to the door without permission to cause trouble for Zuixian Tower.

Although some people were dissatisfied and secretly invited some ruffians to cause trouble in Zuixian Tower, there were several young men sent by Crouching Tiger Village to guard the place. Even though they looked like waiters, they all had quite good kung fu.

Several times the gangsters caused trouble, but without alerting the authorities, they were pulled out of the shop by these teenagers, blocked in an alley, and beaten violently. The beatings made the idle gangsters in Ezhou no longer dare to come easily to cause trouble.

Gao Huaiyuan had naturally heard Huang Zhen talk about these things. Why did he feel that Huang Zhen was a bit like the gangster boss of later generations, who took advantage of both black and white in Ezhou?

Huang Zhen is also very satisfied with the current situation, and he is ambitious to promote the Zuixian Tower to all parts of the Southern Song Dynasty in two or three years, so Huang Zhen started to hand over the affairs here to his cousin a year ago

Take care of it and be ready to go to Liangzhe and Zhejiang to open a new semicolon at any time.

This form of management was not created by Gao Huaiyuan. Business in the Southern Song Dynasty was very advanced. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, merchants from all over the country began to adopt this kind of management method. The Wang family's shop is a typical example. The family business expanded to a wide range of areas.

In the past, semi-colons were set up in various places, and Huang Zhen was also gradually setting up shop. In just six months, nearly ten Zuixianlou semi-colons were added on Jingxi Road, and the business was extremely prosperous.

This kind of expansion is very rare even in later generations. One of the important reasons is that the wine sold by Zuixianlou is the only one in the world, and there is no other semicolon. The benefits brought by the monopoly are naturally huge, and high

Huaiyuan is also confident that he can build a business empire all over the country in a relatively short period of time and spread his intelligence network.

When Gao Huaiyuan walked all the way to Zuixian Tower, the people here immediately recognized him and quickly invited him into the restaurant. Huang Zhen also quickly came out after hearing the news.

Gao Huaiyuan told Huang Zhen about his return to Shaoxing to purchase real estate. After the two briefly explained some of the business matters here after Huang Zhen left, Gao Huaiyuan said to Huang Zhen: "Uncle Huang returned to Shaoxing this time.

You can show off your skills. Before I left, I mentioned to my father that you were going back to Shaoxing. My father has promised to take care of your affairs. You are also familiar with the ground there. There should be no problem in getting a foothold. If anything happens,

You can just ask my father for help, as long as you make sure that my father can drink the magic drunk from time to time!

Also, after my uncle passes away this time, the focus is not on Shaoxing. We must find a way to open Zuixianlou to Lin'an as soon as possible. That is our destination, and right now we don't just have Shenxianzui as our signature thing.

, now we have reserved a batch of perfumes, creams, and moisturizing oils, and we have also made a lot of glass mirrors. Once these things are put on the market, they will become an instant hit. It seems that Uncle Huang will have to work hard this year!"

Huang Zhen nodded and said with a happy face: "Don't worry, young master! Leave this matter to me. I won't disappoint the young master. Another thing is the pigeons that the young master took away years ago."

, flew back before the Chinese New Year, and came back from Shaoxing. Judging from the date when the young master left them on their feet, the fastest one flew back in less than three days, and the rest also arrived here on the same day. Sure enough,

It can be called a god. It will be so convenient to have this thing to deliver messages in the future! Not only can it save time, but it also saves a lot of manpower and travel expenses! No wonder the young master ran to find Liu Fugui in the first place. This method

Really exquisite!”

Huang Zhen mentioned the homing pigeons. If he hadn't said anything, Gao Huaiyuan would have almost ignored it. After hearing this, he was overjoyed and asked quickly: "Then the pigeons I took away this time have all returned home."

Is it done?"

Huang Zhen nodded and replied with a smile: "I brought five pigeons to the young master this time, and they have all come back. I really don't understand how such a little thing can remember the way back when he traveled overland to Shaoxing.

Sometimes even birds are much stronger than people! Haha!"

After listening to Huang Zhen's words, Gao Huaiyuan laughed for a while, and now he felt relieved. At least now, his plan to use pigeons to build a communication network of his own has initially been successful. In the future, there will be a network composed of homing pigeons.

The communication network is at least several times faster than current human communication, so there is no problem.

After the two discussed the next business expansion plan in detail, Huang Zhen told another piece of news that he had just learned from Huang Yan before the army. Meng Zongzheng's troops had now firmly controlled the Zaoyang area.

He also cooperated with Suizhou commander Liu Shixing to regain a large area of ​​Suizhou territory, and drove the Jin army back to Xinyang and Tanghe areas. He also adopted Gao Huaiyuan's suggestion and began to prepare for the establishment of the Zhongshun Army in Zaoyang, absorbing Tanghe, Dengzhou, and Caizhou.

The strong Han warriors in the three golden realms were stationed in Zaoyang for training.

Meng Zongzheng led his troops to capture Huyang County in Jinzhan years ago, and captured the county in one go. Meng Gong dared to use his life in this battle, and his men were brave and courageous, and made great achievements. Now he has accumulated merits and has been promoted to the army.

He was in charge of the left army of the Zhongshun Army and was promoted to deputy general. Even Huang Yan was promoted to the commander of the Zhongshun Army Camp due to his merit. Only one of the other young men in Crouching Tiger Village was killed in battle. The rest have been promoted and have been

Meng Gong was placed in the Zhongshun Army, and the youngest one was also a captain. Some people became the instructors of the Zhongshun Army. Now it can be said that Gao Huaiyuan has not lost face, and because Huang Yan proposed to establish the Zhongshun Army, he was highly regarded by Meng Zongzheng.

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For this reason, Meng Zongzheng also mentioned Gao Huaiyuan himself many times in front of the army. He deeply regretted that Gao Huaiyuan could not stay in front of the army. For Gao Huaiyuan's expulsion from the army, Meng Zongzheng even took the time to write to Zhao twice.

Mr. Fang Zhao defended Gao Huaiyuan about the Qifang Town matter.

Gao Huaiyuan smiled and shook his head and said: "Don't mention this matter again. I had no intention of becoming an officer in the army. Now I have a big family and a big business. If I didn't come back, how could something like Shenxianzui happen?"

What a great wine! Haha!

But Huang Yan is indeed good. He is not a business material, but he is a good material for a general. If he comes back with me this time, it will be a big loss! Now Uncle Huang is still complaining that I did not bring Huang Yan back.

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Huang Zhen no longer cares about Huang Yanliu's service in the army. He smiled and waved his hands and said: "This guy has never been stable since he was a child. Fortunately, he met you, young master. If not, I wouldn't know how he would be now."

What is he like? He might have become a disaster in Shaoxing a long time ago. He can be where he is today thanks to the young master. Besides, he has grown up. What he wants to do in the future is up to him!

Life or death is a matter of destiny. If he can make a career in the army, he will be able to bring glory to our Huang family! It's a pity that he stayed in front of the army this time, and he will no longer be able to work for you, young master!"