Chapter 678: Leaving Beijing overnight
Li Daqi's fleet has two, with a total of more than 60 cargo ships, both of which are 500 to 800 stone cargo ships. Under Li Daqi's order, all the ships have arrived in the capital. Due to their large scale, they attracted a lot of attention when the ships in the capital were very tense.
Li Daqi was even more worried that they were requisitioned by the military, so during the day, the ships were moored in a small river dozens of miles away. They would quietly enter the Bian River after nightfall and berthed on the dock outside Baoyanzhai.
But even so, Li Daqi still did not dare to be careless and only let four ships sail as ferry boats to transport people and goods to the periphery on board. Especially when the Jin Dynasty had invaded the Song Dynasty, if the fleet was discovered by the government at this time, it would inevitably be requisitioned.
Although the ferry boat didn't come until dark, people who were about to take the boat to the south came from all directions. These people were Baoyanzhai clerks and their families. Li Daqi hired nearly 200 people in the capital, including clerks, workers, and craftsmen who developed new products. In addition, their parents, wives and children were as many as thousands. In addition, some fellow villagers from Tangyin County would also take the boat to the south.
Of course, it wouldn't be everyone willing to go south, nor would they leave all by boat at one time. Everyone went south in batches. Today is the third batch, and the place where they are placed is not a place in Hangzhou.
In recent years, Li Daqi has bought a large amount of land and houses in the south, mainly distributed in Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Suzhou, Jiangning and Jiangxia. In addition, Jiangling Prefecture, Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Chengdu Prefecture also have a small number of houses, but they can be ignored.
Hangzhou, Suzhou and Jiangning mainly focus on urban houses, and the manor land is mainly concentrated in Mingzhou and Jiangxia. Mingzhou is today's Ningbo. Li Daqi has a wharf, warehouse and three manors there.
Jiangxia mainly focuses on manors. Li Daqi purchased two thousand hectares of land there to form ten hundred flower manors. Lushan Academy has also moved to Jiangkou Town, south of Jiangxia County last year.
Jiangkou Town is also a major cargo transfer location for Baoyanzhai. Many Tangyin tribes, including the Li family and the Wang Gui and Tanghuai families, gather there. With more than a thousand students from Lushan Academy, Jiangkou Town is already as prosperous as a county town and has been called Xiaotangyin in Jiangxia.
Today, a group of about 300 people migrated south, all of whom went to Hangzhou. Everyone brought big bags and small bags, and each person could also carry a box. They brought almost all their wealth.
Baoyanzhai was crowded with people, each of whom found a place to sit on the ground, and several familiar people gathered together, leaning on their soft wealth, and the weather was relatively hot and there were constant men who brought herbal tea and snacks.
Although there are many people in Baoyanzhai, they are very quiet, and they are afraid that the government will cause trouble. Such large-scale people are generally allowed to gather after approval by the government. Moreover, the court does not allow the capital's population to move south on a large scale, so it is necessary to keep a low profile.
There were still many young children who were migrating south. They were hugged by their mothers and shook and coaxed gently. Because Li Daqi was well prepared, Baoyanzhai had enough food, water and medicine. Everyone consciously kept quiet and patiently waited for the night to fall.
Li Yanqing was instructing several accountants, "You go and tell everyone that there are only four ferry boats, and the luggage and people should go separately. First, send the people over to change the boat, and then send the packages and boxes, so that everyone can write their names on the bags and boxes."
Several accountants went to make arrangements separately, and then the family came in again, but it was Tang Zhenzong, his wife and two daughters, who also brought five or six bags and three boxes.
Li Yanqing hurriedly greeted him, "Zhenzong, are you leaving today too?"
Tang Zhenzong shook his head, "I won't leave today, but my wife and daughter are here first. I will deal with the funeral of the inn. I will go back and I will go with you."
The only asset of the Tang family in Beijing is the Tang Inn. Like many merchants who realized the situation was not good, the Tang family also wanted to sell the inn covering three acres last year. The inn was very good, close to Zhouxi Wazi, which could be sold at least 80,000 guan. However, Li Gouer, a man, ran for him for a year, and no one was willing to take over the inn. Tang Zhenzong cut the price to 30,000 guan in succession, but he still couldn't find a buyer. Tang Zhenzong had to die.
However, when the silver price was 1,500 guan, Tang Zhenzong followed Li Daqi's advice and exchanged all the 30,000 guan accumulated in the store for silver. Seeing that the silver price continued to rise, this made Tang Zhenzong feel much more comfortable.
Li Daqi patted him on the shoulder, "Let my sister-in-law and the child go to my study to rest. I want to ask you for help if you have something."
"What's up?"
Li Daqi asked a female clerk to take Tang Zhenzong's wife and daughter to the study to rest first, then pulled Tang Zhenzong aside and whispered to him: "I want to ask you to go back to Tangyin County to help me move my tomb."
This was the second time that Li Daqi told Tang Zhenzong about this, and moved his first wife's bone colon to Hangzhou.
Tang Zhenzong smiled bitterly and said to Li Daqi: "Daqi, it's not that I don't want to help you. I just happened to go back to Tangyin to deal with the Tang clan affairs and help you move the tomb. But I still want to advise you, there is no need. Your Li clan cemeteries are all over there, and Yun Niang's mother's cemetery is also in Tangyin. Why do you have to move her tomb out? Moving to Hangzhou is a place that leaves your hometown? And to say something bad, it's really not appropriate to move your wife's tomb, but you don't care about your parents' tomb."
Li Daqi was silent for a moment. In fact, he didn't want to move the tomb. But his son told him a few times and moved his mother's tomb to Hangzhou, so Li Daqi asked Tang Zhenzong to help.
However, Tang Zhenzong's last sentence actually said that if Li Daqi only moved his wife's tomb without caring about his parents, he would be stabbed by someone, and his parents were buried in the family cemetery and could not be moved at will. This is actually a dead ring.
Li Daqi pondered for a long time and could only sigh and said, "This is how it goes! Go and help me level the tomb, plant a few trees next to it, and turn around and bring the tombstone back."
"That's right. It's the same with building a tomb in Hangzhou! My father's tomb is also prepared to deal with this, and build a tomb in Jiangxia."
"When will you go back to Tangyin?"
"There are more than a dozen families who want to bring them out. Time is tight, so I plan to set off tomorrow."
Li Daqi thought for a while and said, "I heard that Yue Ge'er's father passed away, so you simply brought Yue Ge'er's family out, Yanqing told me a few times."
"No problem, I'll do it together."
At night, four cargo ships quietly arrived at the dock at the back door of Baoyanzhai under the cover of night. A cargo ship could seat thirty people. The first batch of 120 people lined up to board the ship in turn. The ships left the dock and soon disappeared into the night and headed towards the transit place thirty miles away. They would transport all their people and luggage out of the capital overnight, change the ship at the transit place and sail to Hangzhou.
Just as dawn was dawn, Li Daqi came to Cao's mansion. The gatekeeper knew Li Daqi and hurriedly asked Li Daqi to come into the mansion for a while. The gatekeeper ran to report. Soon, Cao Ping's eldest son Cao Yan hurried to the gatekeeper and bowed with his fists and said, "Let Mr. Li wait for a long time, please go into the mansion to rest!"
Li Daqi smiled and said, "I'm disturbing!"
He then followed Cao Yan to the guest hall to sit down. Cao Yan apologized: "My father's condition has just improved and he is still in recuperation and cannot meet the guests. Please forgive me!"
"It's okay! It's okay! It's the same with the elder brother."
"I wonder what you will see when the official visits you?" Cao Yan asked politely.
Li Daqi smiled and said, "Actually, there are only two things. The first is to visit the old man's condition. Since the condition has improved, it is enough to make people feel relieved."
"Thank you for your concern, please continue!"
"The second thing is that Baoyanzhai still has more than 20 ships outside the city, all of which are 500 stone cargo ships. Does the Cao Mansion also need to transfer some of its tribe members to Hangzhou first?"
Cao Yan was immediately overjoyed. This was also a very troubled thing for him these days. The Cao family had hundreds of tribesmen and hundreds of maids and servants in the capital. Although they could also take a ox cart south, it was too hard to ride a cart, and there was a lot of wealth that could not be transferred. He was worried about this matter these days. Li Daqi suddenly told him that there were more than twenty ships, so how could he not be overjoyed?
"Thank you so much to Mr. Li. I'm just worried about this matter! Now all the ships have been requisitioned by the military, and there is no ship to be found."
Li Daqi smiled slightly, "You have to be polite, we are also relatives! There are only twenty-five ships at present, and there will be more than sixty ships when the fleet returns in twenty days. I suggest sending the people away first, and then transporting various items."
"It's just my wish. I wonder how many people can be transported by twenty-five ships?"
"If you squeeze a little, you can sit 600 people. If you want to be more comfortable on the road, about 120 or 30 people will be enough."
"Okay! I'll make arrangements first. I'll give the staff a clear plan tomorrow morning, and then I'll set off tomorrow night!"
Chapter completed!