Dashun sea trade is very developed. So much so that Emperor Dashun liked to use spices to reduce his salary. In the past, when he was not an official, he felt nothing if he did not eat the royal food. Now, Liang Qu felt that this thing was so damn wicked. It's like you are at work, and suddenly your boss tells you that wages will not be paid from today on, and everyone will take some inventory from the warehouse and go home. The person who did this is still the emperor. You have to agree even if you don't agree. It's a typical case of forced buying and selling. For example, if pepper costs one hundred jin and twenty taels, and your monthly salary is twenty taels, I will give you ten taels of silver plus fifty jins of pepper. If that's the case, forget it. At worst, it will take a lot of trouble and be exchanged for money. But the most embarrassing thing is that when it is distributed, it is indeed converted according to the market price, but when you go out to sell it with the discounted pepper, you will find that the spice is no longer at this price! The spices were purchased for one tael per one hundred catties, and they were resold to officials for a profit of twenty times the price difference. The existence of sea trade has caused a sudden increase in the supply of spices on the market, and the market price has plummeted.
Maritime trade should be a good thing that benefits the country and the people and promotes development. But everyone pays for the cost of sea trade, and all the money goes into the pockets of the royal family. Although I heard that this emperor is not bad and all the money is used on business, it is really difficult. It is said that there is a loud protest against sea trade in both the government and the public. Liang Qu only hoped that when he received his salary, he would not receive a large bag of worthless spices. A ten-year-old girl who knows nothing costs four or five taels. Those who are skilled and fair-looking can range from one to twenty taels to as many as one hundred taels. It is not something he can consider at the moment. You still have to hire an envoy to call the mother-in-law. If you take care of the food, you can get a few copper coins a day. If you don't care about the food, you can get ten copper coins. Cheap and easy to use. Liang Qu sketched on the paper, calculated the expenditure and income, folded it and put it away, took the dragon tendons and sturgeon king meat, and went to Jianghuai Zeye to find the three beasts. The weather is not too hot, about ten degrees Celsius, and the monster meat will rot much slower. After one night, it is still very fresh. When the rowing boat reached the lotus root, Liang Qu struck the oar, unable to move and his fists surfaced. The Tianshui Centipede Awei climbed down from his wrist and floated freely on the water. I don’t know if it’s due to puberty, but my fists have now grown to a height of meters, very fast, and the carapace is harder than steel, so I can definitely join in the battle between spirits and monsters. The disadvantage is that the fist cannot get on the boat and stand on the bow. It is too wide and heavy and can easily push the bow down. Liang Qu divided the sturgeon meat into four portions, one small, one medium, and two large, and gave them to Ah Wei according to his body size. He could not move his fists. When he took out the last piece of fish, he looked around and found no fat catfish. "Strange, why didn't I see Ah Fei?" Liang Qu scratched his head and actively sensed the location of the fat catfish in his mind, and then he was stunned to find that the fat catfish was extremely far away from him. Is this location in the center of the deep water area? How did Ah Fei get there?
Across the territory of many spirits, big spirits, and monsters, all the way to the core area of the deep water? The most important thing is that the vital signs are very good! Liang Qu really couldn't figure it out and was about to contact Fat Catfish. Then he discovered that Fat Catfish was quickly leaving the deep water area and quickly approaching the shallow water area. The entire movement speed was terrifying! Liang Qu: "???" Fly? More than a quarter of an hour later, Fat Catfish, who received Liang Qu's call to bid farewell to Big Brother Toad, once again crossed the undercurrent channel and fell into the mud in a daze. Pulling his head out of the water, the fat catfish staggered around for a while, then regained consciousness and figured out the direction, then quickly approached Liang Qu's position. By the time the fat catfish approached the boat, half an hour had passed. The water surface surged in an arc, and a huge amount of water slid down the black back of the fat catfish, turning into white water foam. As soon as it appeared, without waiting for Liang Qu to ask questions, he put his head on the boat, dropped a fiery red feather, and then wildly flicked the catfish's tentacles, and a lot of words came from the spiritual connection. "undercurrent" "Brother Toad" "trade" The title of Brother Toad was too abstract, and Liang Qu didn't react for a while, especially when he looked at the familiar fire feather. Isn't this Chi Huo Ming Yu? Why another one? Liang Qu frowned and his brain was running wildly, trying his best to deduce the entire incident through Fat Catfish's limited vocabulary. "You found an undercurrent, a passage. When you enter, you will be transported to a big toad?" Fat Catfish nodded. "You recognized Toad as your big brother and promised to bring him a complete ship, and he would give you something in exchange?" Fat Catfish nodded vigorously. Liang Qu stood alone on the bow of the ship and circled around, then picked up the red fire feather and checked it. The heat was far less hot than the one I saw last time, and the aura was not strong, just weak. It can be seen that this is either a red fire bird feather infused with the essence of the red fire bird, or a very ordinary red fire bird hair. The material is good and can be used to weave clothes and be sold to rich ladies from rich families, but it cannot be used. Come and forge spiritual weapons. Unbelievable, really unbelievable. Liang Qu vividly remembered the spherical black shadow that killed the red firebird. He was almost knocked over by the aftermath, which was really shocking. At that time, he guessed it was a toad, but he didn't expect it to be a toad. Having seen the strength of the Sturgeon King, he can be sure that the strength of that toad is definitely not an ordinary demon, but a great demon, even one of the stronger ones among the great demons!
It can be seen from Ah Fei's few words that Toad is extremely intelligent and even has his own hobbies and aesthetics, and likes to collect beautiful boats. How did a big demon and a small demon become brothers in just one night? Even gave a red fire bird feather as a gift? It seemed that Liang Qu was confused. The fat catfish patted his belly, indicating that his new big brother was not as noble as the gods in his heart. Liang Qu: "" He took out the sturgeon meat and let the fat catfish eat it first, and sat by the boat to think. In his view, the so-called exchange was to give the toad a ship model in exchange for something it didn't want. That was a real big demon! Things that the big demon didn't want were also treasures! The fat catfish didn't recognize what was an ordinary feather and what was a red fire mourning feather this time, so he took the wrong feather. If it could recognize it, wouldn't it be a feather worth hundreds of gold? A ship in exchange for a few feathers, that would be thousands of gold, tens of thousands of taels of silver! But where to find a good ship Liang Qu roughly guessed where the toad's current ship came from, most likely it was from the ancient battlefield before. This means that the ancient battlefield is actually in deep water, so digging up the sunken ship is not feasible. Building a big ship is not cheap. If you build a two-masted ship, it will cost several thousand taels, which is a break-even business. Can you make it smaller and build a ship model? A two-masted ship is several dozen meters long. He can make a six or seven-meter one in proportion and spend a hundred taels of silver. It is not a problem, right? Anyway, the toad is not used for riding, but for viewing. If it is smaller, it can be made more delicate and a flower can be carved on the mast. Besides ships, is the toad interested in other things? For example, Luban locks.