Chapter 915: No Farewell Pigeons

"Build a track plank."

"Build a track plank."

"Boom!"

At the Weishui Wharf in Jingzhao Prefecture, the porters on the shore dropped a plank with a track onto the side of the boat like a drawbridge over a moat while shouting.

The people on the boat pulled and the people on the shore pushed, pushing the small carts loaded with goods to the end, holding them up, and the people on the boat carried them directly.

Each time, two tracks were built at the same time, but on a ∩-shaped board.

Send the goods forward from one direction on the shore, unload the goods, and return the empty car from the other direction.

This is the case when loading and unloading.

No longer carry people over the plank, which is slow and dangerous.

If the empty ship is small, the plank will tilt towards the dock once it is put on, and it will gradually balance after the goods are put on the other side.

Big ships can't feel this weight at all, especially flat-bottomed canal boats.

One by one, the ships were already going down the river. There was a team with the largest scale. The flag they held up had two words written on it: Shu Salt.

Yang Huanjin stood on the dock, watching the last few boxes being carried to the sailing ship. He looked back and stepped onto the ship.

The boxes contained exchange vouchers of varying denominations of 500,000 strings of cash. He took the money but did not see Li Yi.

Today, Li Yi did not come to see him off, but someone accompanied him.

The pigeon breeder, Li Yi got a large number of pigeons and gradually released them at a distance, mainly to familiarize himself with the terrain and magnetic field environment of the Jingzhao Prefecture.

Now take out fifty pigeons, put them in cages and take them to Shu to try to see if they can return to the nest.

"If it is feasible, fly back and raise them, take more pigeons to Shu, and then fly back." The pigeon breeder was talking to Huang Xianrong.

He knew the purpose of the pigeons' careful care, the old pigeons brought the new pigeons, and flew back a long distance.

The pigeons' footsteps carried mailboxes, and the content was written in code.

The password is a book printed separately by Lijiazhuangzi. The corresponding numbers and even the first pinyin combination of the characters indicate the position in the book.

"One at a time, can be delivered fifty times." Huang Xianrong is looking forward to it. When he arrives in Shu, he will raise another batch of pigeons.

Through land express transportation, communication from Shu to Chang'an at a critical moment will be countless times faster.

"One is not enough, at least five, so as not to lose the way back or be caught by birds of prey on the road." The pigeon breeder shook his head gently.

"How many days does it take from Shu to Chang'an?" Huang Xianrong thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he asked about the speed.

"One day." The pigeon breeder raised a finger.

He was confident that the pigeons raised by his team could easily fly back from Shu in one day.

"Fast, really fast. Why not bring some pigeons over?" Huang Xianrong was not familiar with homing pigeons at all, and he still had questions.

"It hasn't laid eggs yet. When the eggs are laid, the attempt here is successful, and the hatched pigeons will be delivered by a special person to the post station, and I will raise them there."

When the pigeon breeder talked about being there, he looked a little sad.

He shoulders a heavy responsibility, he is the best among the pigeon breeders.

He needs to teach others how to raise pigeons before he can come back, his home is in Chang'an.

As if thinking of this question, Huang Xianrong comforted: "Li Dongzhu will take good care of your family, how much money will you give each month?"

"Fifty strings of cash." The pigeon breeder finally smiled, fifty strings of cash, he is the best one.

Fifty thousand coins a month, if there is no leap month in a year, 600,000 coins, if there is a leap month, 650,000 coins.

In the past, he raised pigeons for others, and only 500 coins a month, a hundred times worse.

Huang Xianrong looked at the pigeon breeder next to him again, who looked very simple, and did not expect that the wages were sky-high.

"So you can save money to buy a house." Huang Xianrong congratulated.

"There are houses. The owner gave me houses. There is a special area for the houses in the south of Chang'an.

All pigeon breeders live in the courtyard of the second floor, and there are people protecting them.

To prevent my family from being captured and used to threaten me, we will be safe when there are more pigeons in various parts of the Tang Dynasty."

The pigeon breeder talked about the house with a smile.

Huang Xianrong found that he had not thought enough, and he suddenly asked: "If you are captured by the enemy and asked to pass on false information, what will you do?"

"I... I will never agree to it." The pigeon breeder lowered his head.

What he actually thought was, then change to a different kind of paper, a special kind of paper that cannot be seen on the surface, and each piece of paper has a number.

The special paper has a special number, and each pigeon breeder has a different number.

Using special paper to pass the message, Chang'an will know that something happened to him.

They will find ways to rescue him while using this line.

I have to work hard to live and wait for the day when I am rescued.

It's not okay if the line is broken, because if the line is broken, the rescuers will not be able to find me.

It was all agreed, and every aspect was considered.

Of course, he would not tell outsiders and put on a loyal look.

"Let's sail~~! Have a good trip~!"

The people on the shore shouted and helped to row the boat. The people in the boat stepped on it a few times, adjusted the rudder, and the boat was pushed downstream.

The salt gang took away four ships, one of which was tested on the Yangtze River waterway.

In the rapids, the boats had to rely on the boatmen to move forward. In other places, those with oars paddled, and those without oars held the sails.

Therefore, the upstream waterway on the Yangtze River is wider than the downstream waterway. Downstream is directly downstream, and if the wind is not good, the upstream waterway will deviate back and forth.

The sailboats you see usually go diagonally to the left, then diagonally to the right, and the people on the boat keep operating the sails, which is also a strenuous job.

If it is a favorable wind, then the sails are full, and the downstream ships will lower the sails.

The four ships need to help pull their big ship in the rapids. If they succeed, the work of the boatmen will be easier.

The ship is modified and has sails on it. When the wind direction is good, it can keep up with the main force.

"It will be easier to change to the new boat with oars that flip underwater, which is produced by Li's manor."

Huang Xianrong stood at the bow, looking at the ship in front and talking to Yang Huanjin.

Yang Huanjin raised his hand to test the wind: "It won't be released. The oars under the water are military weapons."

"Li Dongzhu gave 500,000 coins of exchange coupons, plus the tens of thousands of coins of exchange coupons we received from selling goods in Chang'an. They will be snapped up when we return to Shu."

Huang Xianrong did not expect more advanced oars, but talked about making money with exchange coupons.

Nowadays, all Shu merchants who can get exchange coupons must take some back.

Some add one coin for every 100 coins to exchange with others, and some add one coin for every 50 coins.

People who set up stalls and open shops are willing to give more when buying snacks with exchange coupons.

Shu lacks copper. Historically, Shu's economy developed well, but there was not enough currency in circulation, so they had to cast iron coins.

The ratio of iron coins to copper coins was too large. You need to bring a lot to buy something, which is too heavy.

For example, if you buy something worth one string, you use copper coins, which is six pounds and four ounces, and it is very uncomfortable to carry.

If you change it to iron coins, it may be more than sixty pounds.

The exchange coupon is convenient, a light piece of paper, and the picture is still good, and others cannot make fakes.

Five hundred thousand strings of exchange coupons, according to fifty coins plus one coin, they can go back with an extra ten thousand strings.

"Don't add money, go back and tell the people of other big business houses that you don't add money to exchange for exchange coupons, but if there is something in the future, they must help us first."

Yang Huanjin shook his head and exchanged at a normal ratio to get a chance to help.

At the beginning, the salt merchants in Shu didn't help the court transport things with their own money, so how could they have the face to ask Li Yi for help?

The reward for the past efforts was tax exemption.

All the money was earned back at once, and there was still more.

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