Chapter 111 Don’t let people find the handle (please ask for monthly votes for new books)

Chapter 111 Don’t let people find the handle (please ask for monthly votes for new books)

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This pier is very secluded, it is almost at the northernmost end of the island. Most private piers are set up near Haizhou County because they are greedy for the prosperity and convenience of the county town. This pier is also one-hour flight from the nearest private pier, and stands alone at the northernmost end of Yuzhou Island. In addition to the large warehouse area, there seems to be no farmland and residential areas on the pier. Look at the situation, I don’t know if there are any ready-made roads on the land leading to the county town.

I sailed through the outermost end of the breakwater, and a circular fortress-like building was built there, which looked like a Japanese gun tower, but also like a lighthouse, or it was a two-purpose and used.

After passing this artillery tower, the long dam deep into the sea, berths and cranes are every distance away. The only few ships left by the dock are leaving the port under the guidance of patrol ships. This departure procedure is a bit modern.

Shi Zhun's boat was docked under curious eyes and took a springboard. Shi Yanei sent a mate to jump ashore and underestimated the people on the dock. Several nervous men nearby immediately relaxed. The remaining dock workers came forward to meet him and led Shi Zhun onto the carriage. The group passed through the breakwater and passed through empty buildings near the dock...

The carriage was driving for a long time before we arrived near Mr. Hai's residence. Shi Chuan looked back and saw that the warehouse group also stretched for two or three miles. In the Song Dynasty, this was probably considered a "medium size".

"These warehouses are built particularly tall - well, they are taller than other families, and Mr. Hai is indeed a good means." Shi Chuan said nothing about it.

The person who accompanied him greeted him, Shi Chuan got off the carriage, but the carriage did not stop and continued to walk towards the door of the house. Shi Chuan then walked with the convoy, observing while walking: "The span of the room is not large these days, because most beams use native wood, and the load-bearing of the wood is limited. Although the vaults can also be made, rooms with a span of more than ten meters can be spliced, but it is too technically difficult to do that. On the shore where the sea breeze is howling, typhoons are constantly roaring.

No, this warehouse is a stone building and brick and stone structure technology. It was used to make temples and Buddhist temples in the Song Dynasty. This young master of Hai probably doesn’t care about the gods, ah, and even a little contemptuous. Of course, he has money.

However, I heard that he has only been here for ten years. I am afraid that all the money he earned will be spent on this building..."

In the eyes of the Song people, this pier is far away from the county town and is extremely inconvenient to travel, but Shizhi knew that its location happened to be Lianyungang. Even if the sediment and sand accumulation have been accumulated for hundreds of years, the waters between Yuzhou Island and the mainland will be filled, the port will not be flooded by sediment - it can be used for 800 consecutive years.

However, for eight hundred years of continuous use, it is only theoretically. A maritime pier needs to be supported by the surrounding land. When the original pier in Haizhou is engulfed by mud and sand, it becomes a shallow at high tide and a small fishing boat stop at low tide, Haizhou, as a port area, must be abandoned.

The military man who accompanied him was Liao Wu. When he saw him, he looked around and explained: "Haizhou City has a small territory. Building an inn in Haizhou City is a big expense just by purchasing land. Yuzhou Island has no other production, only a dilapidated salt farm, and the local tribute is maw rubber. Because the land is cheap and the coastline is long, merchants like to build inns along the shore, and then build their own dock on the beach to store goods and wait for the trade wind to leave the port.

Hehe, everyone does this not all for smuggling. There are so many warehouses on the shore that the government can’t see. Besides, the boat can leave, but the boatman has always lived on land. As long as the government controls the boatman, he is not afraid of tax evasion. Song Lu: When a boat goes to sea, you must have approved documents. If the boat does not pay the tax, you go to sea privately. Even if the crew is dismissed from the residence, you will not think of going home from now on.

Hehehe, everyone built the warehouse on Yuzhou Island, mainly for cheap land prices... Of course, there are always entrainments. Each ship left the port from Haizhou and always had to add some cargo to Yuzhou Island. The Haizhou Maritime Bureau only charges taxes according to the cabin of the ship, regardless of whether the cabin is empty or not. In this case, after the ship owner leaves Haizhou, he will come to Yuzhou Island to add goods, which is not considered smuggling - their cabins have been paid taxes.

Of course, there are policies and countermeasures at the top. When the ship owner leaves the port from Haizhou, he can report more of the proportion of the cabins occupied by water and food, and then a little more of the crew. When he arrives on the island, he will unload some water and food, so that the excess crew members can temporarily hide in the warehouse. In this way, he can free up some cabins to carry a little private cargo, but it is just not too much."

"I understand. I'm still thinking about how many warehouses are equipped with smuggled goods, can the government tolerate tax losses? It turns out...that is to say, this warehouse group should usually hide around 500 people?"

"How can it be?" Liao Wu did not hide it: "People are like flowing water. When you come and go tomorrow, how can you save 500 people at once? There are 200 people in this warehouse. In addition, my sister-in-law also set up two workshops, hired about 60 men, and forty personal guards around my son-in-law, a total of 300 people. It is good to save 200 people in the remaining empty rooms.

Haha, my son-in-law is not ruthless and often says: It is enough to have this profit. The Shi family is an outsider. It is best to rise up and not be held grudges from Haizhou. It is better not to find a handle."

Shi Chuan nodded and praised: "Yes, if you want to have a long business, sometimes it is necessary to endure some small losses. Everyone in Haizhou praises your son for being smart... I forgot to ask, what is your son's surname and what should I call him later?"

Liao Wu grinned: "Everyone calls my son my son "Shi brother-in-law". That's because my son has always cared too much about his name and surname. He said: He is a wanderer. If he has a child, then pay attention to his name and surname and let the child have a ancestor. Now... he doesn't have to care about this surname.

When I came to our Shi family, the young master said that he regarded Hai as his family, so he just had his surname Hai. That's why the eldest lady followed him to Haizhou after getting married. Since the eldest lady passed away, Mr. Hai has forgotten his surname, so you can call him Mr. Hai and he agree to call him Mr. Hai. He has no objection to calling him brother-in-law of the Shi family. The son-in-law is quite kind and easy to get along with."

The building facing the sea in the distance was getting closer and closer. It was a long two-story building. Shi Chuan saw this building, and the alarm bell kept ringing in his heart. He couldn't help but feel surprised and shocked, and unconsciously tensed his body tightened.

This building was made of huge stone. No wonder Shi Yanei was not surprised at all when he saw it. It turned out that he had seen it from his brother-in-law... However, what was even more shocking about this building is that it was actually a Western-style building: a large piece of green grassland and a giant square in front of the door. The building itself has a Baroque smell: huge stone pillars from the ground to the sky; a wide window is three meters high; a doorway that can accommodate two carriages in parallel, and a carved railing made of stone...

Although its main building is only two stories long, it is built on a huge soil foundation. With the deliberately built accessories, the building has a grand feeling - the main hall of the Buddhist temple and Taoist temple has never given people such a great sense of oppression.

There are high steps in front of the gate. There are roads built on the side of the steps that look like a driving path in front of the hotel. Therefore, Shi Chuan was waiting for someone and drove up the gentle slope and stopped directly at the entrance of the building. At this time, the door of the building was wide open, and two teams were wearing white clothes standing at the door to welcome the servants of the convoy - this scene seems to be common in Western movies, like a medieval Western aristocrat...

Oh, Shi Chuan seems to remember that it is the Middle Ages in the West. This era is about the time when Lionheart and Charles the Great prepare for the Crusades. It seems that Baroque architecture is also the beginning of this era.

Liao Wu was obviously very proud and was shocked: "I've seen it for a long time. When I saw this building for the first time, my chin was about to fall off."

Shi Chuan had already felt the truth at this time, and he calmly asked: "This building was designed by Mr. Hai himself? The style of the building is so unique, isn't anyone curious?"

Liao Wu grinned: "I'm afraid Shi Dalang has never been to Quanzhou. Before coming to Haizhou, I accompanied the eldest lady and the young master to Quanzhou for a walk. There are all kinds of buildings there. You haven't seen the 20-meter-high door wall of Hu Temple in Quanzhou, full of... Master Hai said it was Arabic."

Shi Chuan remembered that later, when the Jin people invaded and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty and the Mongolians invaded and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, Haizhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other port cities were completely robbed and burned. The only thing that Quanzhou left was a wall - the unburned Hu Temple gate wall, and Haizhou was completely turned into a ruin. These port cities are the Feng Shui treasure land in the eyes of merchants. After the establishment of the new dynasty, there will always be new merchants to knock down the ruins and rebuilt them, so there have been few ancient buildings left by port cities in history.

Will this building be destroyed by war?

The carriage door slowly opened, and more than twenty servants bent down and bowed aristocratically. Among the servants were black, Indian, and some Chinese, all dressed in tight clothes... The only thing in terms of clothing, the young master of Hai finally bowed to the Song Dynasty. Although the servants were dressed in short clothes, they were dressed in short clothes in the Song Dynasty.

Liao Wu, who was wearing it at any time, only felt that the temperature around him seemed to be getting lower and lower, and the other party's emotions seemed to be getting more and more nervous, and even a little vigilant. He looked sideways and found that Shizhan's mouth was tightly pursed. He walked very carefully, and every step he took was silent, as if gliding on the water.

In order to break the dull atmosphere, Liao Wu continued to introduce: "My son-in-law likes to see the sea, so he built this building by the sea. It took five years to build this building. Unfortunately, the eldest lady passed away after it was completed. Since then, my son-in-law has been living in seclusion. His greatest pleasure is to sail out to sea and wander around the nearby sea. This time we arrived, and I don't know if he went out?"
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