"I can't make the decision on this, I need to ask sir for instructions!"
The escort monitor shook his head and said.
After saying that, he gestured to the speedboat next to him, and the speedboat rushed out.
Zhenyuan No. 2 is huge and difficult to start and stop. So just now Zhenyuan No. 2 did not stop at all and kept moving forward at a constant speed.
However, the speedboat was much faster than Zhenyuan No. 2, and it caught up in just a few minutes.
On Zhenyuan No. 2, Jin Feng also asked Runniang to wake Tang Xiaobei up.
"Xiao Bei, look at the girl on the boat, do you recognize her?"
Jin Feng handed the telescope to Tang Xiaobei.
Tang Xiaobei yawned and glanced at the speedboat: "Isn't that Xiao Yueyue? Why is she here?"
"Someone was chasing them just now..."
Jin Feng recounted what had just happened: "I heard the girl call out our names, and thought she looked familiar, so I sent someone to rescue her."
"Ms. sir, don't you remember? She was one of the female shopkeepers I bought in Jiangnan. She followed Caiwei to find me once, and we even had dinner together," Tang Xiaobei reminded.
"Oh, I remembered, it was the little shopkeeper who later found his family."
After being reminded by Tang Xiaobei, Jin Feng remembered this person.
Just as Tang Xiaobei was about to speak, the escort on the speedboat trotted over.
"Sir, the girl on the boat said she wanted to thank you and Mrs. Xiaobei. Captain Shi asked me to come and ask you whether to let her on the boat."
"Let her come up!"
Since they were acquaintances, Jin Feng felt relieved.
The escort agreed, ran to the railing and waved the flag.
As soon as Captain Shi saw it, he asked the escort who was sailing the ship to speed up to catch up with the Zhenyuan No. 2 and send Miss Xiao Yue aboard.
"Sir, madam!"
As soon as Miss Xiaoyue saw Jin Feng and Tang Xiaobei, her eyes turned red. She knelt down and said, "Thank you sir and madam for helping me!"
"Get up, get up!"
Tang Xiaobei stretched out his hand to help Miss Xiaoyue: "Didn't you develop well after returning home? Why are you suddenly being hunted down again?"
At this time, Jin Feng also remembered this girl's life experience and looked over curiously.
Generally speaking, the female shopkeepers that Jin Feng bought were usually girls from wealthy families whose families had committed crimes, otherwise they would not be literate.
In the past, Dakang had strict laws and children were sold to dental shops, which meant that the crime was relatively big and was not handled well.
Usually in this case, the male members of the family were either sent to the frontline forward camp or exiled.
But no matter which one, the probability of survival is low.
Even if she survives, given the traffic conditions in Dakang, a weak woman's hope of finding her relatives is very slim.
But Miss Xiao Yue is an exception.
She followed her mother to visit relatives in Sichuan and was robbed by bandits on the way. Although Miss Yue escaped with her life under the protection of her servant, her mother and servant were killed by the bandits.
In that era, a weak woman could hardly move alone.
Fortunately, Miss Xiao Yue was lucky. She met a fisherman who took her home and asked her to help at home.
The fishermen's couple's sons and daughters were all dead, so they treated Miss Yue fairly well and at least gave her a bite to eat.
Miss Xiaoyue helped the old couple with some things while thinking of ways to notify her family.
Unfortunately, before the establishment of Jinchuan Daily, it was too difficult for ordinary people to send letters thousands of miles away.
Miss Xiaoyue has not yet found a way to contact her family, and a new county magistrate has arrived.
The new county magistrate's official position was purchased. In order to earn back the money for the official position, two new miscellaneous taxes were added within a few days of the new county magistrate taking office.
The old fisherman's family really didn't have any extra money to pay taxes. When the clerk came to collect the tax, he complained softly. But somehow, the clerk heard it, so he became a clerk to scare the monkeys.
Object.
Miss Xiaoyue also suffered a disaster because of this and was sold to a dental shop by a petty official.
Miss Xiaoyue started to fall ill when she arrived at the Yahang. If Tang Xiaobei hadn't picked her up by chance, she would have died of starvation and illness in the Yahang.
Because her family was in business, Miss Xiaoyue knew how to settle accounts since she was a child. After being selected by Tang Xiaobei, she quickly passed the assessment and became a female shopkeeper of the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce.
With the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce as her backer, Miss Xiaoyue quickly contacted her family.
At the beginning, Miss Xiaoyue was worried that Jin Feng and Tang Xiaobei would not release her, so she did not dare to speak.
Later, after getting to know Tang Xiaobei, he dared to test it out.
In the end, Tang Xiaobei let her go home without saying anything.
After returning home, Miss Xiaoyue asked for a sum of money from her family and opened a cloth shop specializing in selling cloth from the Xihewan Textile Factory.
At first her father thought that Miss Yue was doing this just to repay a favor, but when Miss Xiaoyue came back from purchasing goods, he realized that the fabrics of Xihewan Textile Factory were of high quality and low price, and it quickly established a foothold in the county.
Later, Jin Feng developed a jacquard machine and produced printed cloth, which immediately became a hot commodity in various places and was very popular with the people.
However, due to limited production capacity, ordinary cloth merchants simply cannot get the goods.
Because Miss Xiaoyue knew Tang Xiaobei and was familiar with him at the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce, she was able to obtain printed fabrics and quickly surpassed her father, becoming the largest cloth merchant in the area. She became a local legend for a while.
As a result, not long after the good days, the world fell into chaos.
When the world is in chaos, money is worthless; what is valuable is things.
Miss Xiaoyue's family ran a cloth shop, which was considered hard currency in this era, so business was getting better day by day, and all the old cloth in the warehouse was sold out.
Finding that the world was getting more and more chaotic, Miss Xiaoyue felt that Jiangnan was no longer safe, so she planned to go to Jinchuan and join Jin Feng and Tang Xiaobei. However, before she could set out, she was targeted by the red-eyed people.
Fortunately, after Miss Xiaoyue returned, she spent a lot of money to train a group of guards, otherwise they would not be able to reach the riverside.
After listening to Miss Xiaoyue's story, Jin Feng couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "It seems that Jiangnan is really in chaos!"
What he was most worried about happened.
Robbery is one of the fastest ways to make money, and people are lazy. Once they taste the sweetness of getting something for nothing, it will be difficult to calm down and work hard.
The people in the south of the Yangtze River have lost their minds. They gather together to rob a random landlord, and the food they rob is more than what they had worked to death for several years. Who is still willing to work hard?
But the landowner’s food is also limited. What will happen after the looted food is eaten?
Farming?
But how can you make money as quickly as farming?
By then the landowners have been robbed, and I am afraid they will have no choice but to rob people in other places.
Jin Feng has almost seen what kind of chaos will occur in Jiangnan in a few months...
In fact, Jin Feng had already guessed that there would be chaos in Jiangnan, but he did not expect that the chaos would happen so quickly and so seriously.