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Chapter 34 Homecoming and Aladdin

Li Feng felt a lot of emotion when he saw him off at the wharf. Although he didn't know what would happen in the future, would the King of Yan come to look for the bad luck of Donghai Gong, at least, there was no sign of worry on Donghai Gong's face.

The entourages of Dongshang Palace and Donghai Gong were not worried at all, and they seemed to not take the so-called King of Yan's aides.

Li Feng gradually felt at ease, thinking that he could not know how high the temple was? Maybe Donghai Gong had a great backer above the temple. For example, the current emperor's younger brother, who should be the crown prince who inherited the throne?

Therefore, when he bid farewell to Lu Ning, he felt a little more relaxed and made up his mind to hold Donghai Gong's thigh well.

There are many things that a wife and brother-in-law have to think too much about it. If Donghai Gong is unlucky because of Shuyang, then no matter how Li Feng does, he can't get rid of the relationship and will be unlucky.

I can only hope that Donghai Gong has long had a backer with the King of Yan in the temple.

...

After seeing off the governor Yang.

On the pleasure boat back to the East China Sea, there were two more people, Zhang Wei and Wang Hanshi.

Under the witness of Governor Yang, Zhang Wei lost 300,000 yuan and was forced to sell himself as a slave. Cui Heng became the small debtor in the hands of the Gong of Donghai, which may be the largest creditor today.

At this time, Cui Heng did not dare to say more. He hurriedly released Wang Hanshi and returned the fields of Dongyun Temple and released the five Taoist nuns.

Wang Hanshi and Zhang Shi and other entourages of Lu Ning rested on the bow deck.

Wang Hanshi was a young man in his twenties who looked a little nervous. After getting on the boat, he sat on the bow of the boat, muttering and his eyes were squirming. I don’t know what he was thinking about.

Seeing Lu Ning coming, he stood up in a hurry and bowed and said, "Lord!"

After a deep chat with him, Lu Ning had already verbally agreed to him as a junior doctor in the Donghai Kingdom. After he was settled, he could pick up his parents and mothers.

Wang Hanshi was quick-thinking and hated evil, and he really liked to tinker with what he called the so-called "strange skills" now.

However, it is obvious that as a person of this era, Wang Hanshi naturally pursued being an official and glorious family. If he was invited back was to let him figure out the strange skills, then he would definitely be scolded.

It was indeed different to ask him to go to Donghai Kingdom and hire a ninth-rank junior doctor. Wang Hanshi was overjoyed. After all, this courtesy was extremely honorable, just like Donghai Gong was visiting him for a cottage, let alone Donghai Gong rescued him from the prison.

Zhang Wei was dejected and kept hanging his head without saying a word.

His father was a small official in Chuzhou, and he was just not as good as the best than the best and had enough food and clothing. I am afraid he couldn't get a hundred guan. 300,000 guan? That's a fantasy.

He thought about whether to write a letter to King Yan for help, but when this letter came, I don’t know when it would be before King Yan. After all, it was him himself. If he wanted to meet King Yan, he had to clear himself first and find a suitable opportunity, let alone, he was no longer in Runzhou. Second, even if the letter came to King Yan and angered King Yan, he would still be unlucky with King Donghai. The censors knew about this matter that he was doing something wrong outside under the banner of King Yan, but he was even punished. Therefore, even if King Yan felt that King Donghai would be against him and would be punished, he was afraid that he would be a hundred times worse than King Donghai. The cruel nature of King Yan made people shudder.

I can only walk slowly and see.

Zhang Shi sighed in his heart.

...

Lu Ning couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he entered the cabin.

The female family got on the boat first. It was more than an hour before Lu Ning finished his work. Then he took Zhang Wei, Wang Hanshi and others, and in Cui Heng and Li Fengmen, he sent him off to the pier to board the boat.

When he entered the cabin, Lu Ning saw two graceful figures in the cabin, two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, who were timidly hiding behind Gan.

Both of them are childish, but their exactly-same oval faces and thin willow-leaf eyes are pure and cute, and they show their charm.

"Don't be afraid, pay homage to the Lord!" Gan smiled at the two of them and said to Lu Ning again: "I'm not at ease with these two junior nephews of Xiao Shisan. If this happens to happen, I will not be able to end up here in the future, so I brought them with me."

Lu Ning nodded slightly, "Okay."

The two little girls were all happy when they heard this, and were encouraged by Gan's eyes. They both walked out from behind Gan, bowed to Lu Ning, and said in unison: "Master!"

Lu Ning had already sucked in the air. This, this, the cow? It's big, a little, a bit too much!

Girls are growing too early, right?

I saw them stand up again, both tall. They were obviously wearing the ruchas they made randomly after returning to secular life. They looked very small and tight, showing their terrifying curves. The ruchas skirt was only to their knees, and the trousers were slightly shorter inside, revealing their soft ankles. It seemed that the nine-point pants from later generations also vaguely made people feel that both of them had a pair of slender long legs.

The dress they cut randomly now is similar to the short skirt and nine-point pants that later generations have a look, and Lu Ning couldn't help but laugh.

Gan said, "I thought, you must be spared Xiao Taohong. There is no literacy in the secretary Dian beside you. I asked them, I learned to write since I was a child, and it was just right to be with you."

Lu Ning nodded. It is true that among the maids, there are very few literate people. Xiao Taohong only entered a private school when she was a child because of Liu Zhicai's niece and stepdaughter. The rest of the maids who were regarded as Dian's secretary were originally illiterate, but now they are all learning to recognize and write under the guidance of Gan and You Wuniang.

"Also, they understand the skills of sword dance and fighting, and Xiao Shisan's sister taught them, so it is easier for them to follow the Lord's side and make men's clothing. The Lord's side cannot always follow those rough men."

Lu Ning was stunned. Do you still know some martial arts?

Gan said again: "Master, since they have entered the Lu Mansion and returned to the vulgarity, they will no longer use Taoist names in the future. Please ask the Master to give them a name."

Lu Ning smiled and thought for a while, looking at the twin sisters, "You can just follow the word Tao. My sister is called Damitao and Xiaomitao." He asked again, "Who are you sisters?"

One of them said timidly: "Master, I am my sister."

Lu Ning looked at her and remembered the nuances of the two. In fact, they looked more like ordinary twin sisters than ordinary people. It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish them. Even if their parents have been with them day and night since childhood, they often admit their mistakes.

But Lu Ning's senses were sharp and he had instantly distinguished the nuances of the faces of the two people.

...

At the pier under the Donghai Mountains, several sea boats were moored, and the huge sails were visible. The outline could be seen from afar.

From the direction of a coast, wooden board bridge wharfs tied with long wooden piles extended to form a dock area. These wooden board wharfs were reinforced with new tools such as iron frames and screws in Donghai County, which were extremely reliable.

Close to the dock, a warehouse area has been opened.

At this time, the porters traveled between the cargo warehouse and the dock, and moved boxes and bags of goods to Shanghai ships.

Aladdin stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the outline of Donghai County in the distance, but he had many questions in his heart.

He came from Dashi, and his family had a history of business on the Maritime Silk Road for hundreds of years. However, after the rise of the Abbasid Dynasty, which was called the Black Food in the Tang Dynasty, the Aladdin family's business gradually declined, and even due to the persecution of the new caliph, his family had to migrate to the Indian Peninsula as the Tang Dynasty.

Recently, he even wanted to migrate to the Eastern Tang Kingdom. However, the Tang Dynasty has now perished and the once powerful empire was in civil strife, which made him unresolved. However, after wandering around the Dashifang in Yangzhou, that is, the Arab settlement area, he felt that the living environment of India was like a pig's nest compared to that here.

Yangzhou was once a metropolis in the old empire second only to Chang'an. How could it be compared to the hot uncivilized land?

And just as he was in love, a major event happened in Yangzhou that shocked all Arab merchants. The Tang people created Sinan, which could be used for navigation. Moreover, judging from its structure, it would not be affected by bumps at all on the vast ocean. It was a navigation object that could be used for a long time.

This land was a place full of wisdom before the Tang Empire, and many inventions and creations were breathtaking and influenced by Catholic lands that were even more western.

And now, an invention that is enough to influence the entire world's navigation history has been born here again.

The inventor seemed to be just a vassal prince in a small and small place in the civil turmoil of this huge empire.

Aladdin, like many of his colleagues, came to the East China Sea excitedly.

What surprised them even more was that this small place seemed to have been preparing for this day for a long time.

The warehouse area has sufficient goods, which they need to collect in other places for a long time.

Its wharf is not like many ports, but is built on natural ports, but is reinforced with various wonderful tools. Moreover, it can be seen that this is just a prototype, and with the increase of merchant ships, it will become more and more prosperous here.

The Duke of the Donghai Kingdom, although the Navigation Shinan auctioned a high price of 100,000 yuan, finally announced that the auction was invalid, saying that it was in the East China Sea, and each Navigation Shinan sold only 1,000 yuan, which is one percent of the auction price.

However, this shipping line is only available for purchase of one ship.

The Duke of Donghai, without asking, wanted to make Donghai Port gradually become an empire of civil strife and one of the most important maritime trading ports along the eastern coast under his management.

The Duke of Donghai has no real sea estimator. I think this is also recognized by the Lord of the Sect.

The merchants who were originally from Yangfan were scolding the Duke of Donghai in their hearts. They were far away and just to buy a Sinan, it took so many weeks. Can't you sell it in Yangzhou? You can sell it more? You have to make a fool of yourself.

But when I really arrived at this Donghai Port, I saw the abundant goods and the new dock with a completely different concept from the old empire.

Like many businessmen, Aladdin's heart was filled with storm.

Moreover, when I heard that the Duke of Donghai came out to be a CSI personally to match the trade between maritime merchants and mainland merchants, the two parties paid the deposit, agreed to what goods to ask for, and how much time it took next time, so that it could save a lot of unnecessary time and make the transaction more efficient.

Of course, fresh goods and goods with relatively large market prices are not in such agreed transactions.

Both parties need to pay a certain deposit to the Duke of Donghai. If the party who booked the goods came as promised and the other party could not provide the agreed goods, the Duke of Donghai would pay the deposit to the party who booked the goods.

Similarly, after collecting enough goods, the other party did not come to buy them, and the other party's deposit was also paid to the seller by the Duke of Donghai.

If the Duke of Donghai offers masks to protect each other, it can reassure both parties. Otherwise, if the booking party directly gives the deposit to the other party for such an agreed transaction, and when the other party is not seen at the agreed time, who will they go to?

The party preparing the goods cannot pay a deposit to the merchant who reserved the goods.

Even Aladdin was also excited at this time. He could also order goods. When he returned from Tianzhu next year, he could come to Haizhou to load ships, and save traveling around the coastal ports. Now, the huge empire is in chaos and division, and the goods in the mainland are blocked. They often have to wait several months to travel to multiple ports before they can buy the goods they need. Now, in advance, someone has helped them do this for the shipping business.

"My master! I found out that in three days, the Duke of the Donghai Kingdom will hold a CSI Conference!" On the side, Aladdin's loyal servant Mohammed ran onto the boat with breath, got closer, slowed down, and bowed slightly.

Aladdin nodded, "Okay, I'll go to this conference."

"Also, the Duke of the Donghai Kingdom offers a reward of 300,000 strings of copper coins, and a wonderful idea to buy..." Mohammed was very good at Chinese and had a good understanding of the reward list, so he explained it slowly to Aladdin.

Aladdin's heart suddenly moved and said with a smile: "Duke of the East China Sea, there should be no restrictions on our Hu Shang's participation, right?"

"That's not." Mohammed looked at Aladdin in surprise, "My noble master, don't you want to go and have a big bet with the Duke of the East Sea, do you?"

Aladdin smiled and said, "Do you think the Duke of Donghai knows arithmetic knowledge?"

Mohammed immediately said proudly: "The knowledge of arithmetic is of course the best in the world for us Arabs! The Tang people do not understand the quickness of counting numbers we have improved! Many merchants in the Tang people do not have the concept of zero, so when they do large-scale arithmetic, if there is no abacus, the speed will be very slow!"

Then Mohammed looked at Aladdin in surprise, "Master, if you beat this Duke, will you infuriate him?"

Aladdin's heart was full of desire for this huge sum of money. If he could get this huge sum of money, then his family would have hope of revival!
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