Chapter 1853

Merchant ships with a displacement of two or three hundred tons set sail to sea. The ships headed by them were the ships of Xu Jiqian, Xu Jiming, Xu Weiping and Xu Weifan.

In a spacious and comfortable cabin, Xu Jiming took a hard sip of a snuff bottle and said, "brother, did you say we still have a chance to settle down and wait for the fighter when we arrived at Liang Daofu?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Weifan frowned, and Xu Weiping had a glimmer of hope and expectation.

Xu Jiqian scolded, "what nonsense do you say? Our opportunity is to go to Liang Daofu, communicate with the Liu family as much as possible, supplement enough personnel, and then stay away from Feiyun island and find a place to settle down again."

After a pause, he scolded, "Now that the Li family's children have got the fairy fate, we can't expect to be enemies with him. Maybe you will say that the Li family's children can't fly fast. They can only blow over a dozen or dozens of people at a time. If there are more arrows and guns, they can kill him... But killing him is useless? He's just the ability to be rewarded by the real immortal."

"The immortal who gave him extraordinary means is really invincible. He can only look up..."

As he spoke, Xu Jiqian couldn't help choking and crying.

The immortal is not open-minded. Why did he choose a guy like Li Yuanshu, and the position of the immortal was on the side of those ordinary people who don't know big words and are vulgar.

In any case, they are talented people who are not only outstanding in appearance, but also master all kinds of knowledge and theories, which is worthy of immortal's attention, right?

More than 90% of the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Xuecheng's mansion don't know big characters, are rude, don't know etiquette, etc. when talking about the outside and the connotation, who doesn't get rid of those ordinary people for hundreds of miles?

But now, the fact is that the Xu family suffered heavy losses!

Do you think it's easy to lose all the family property, all kinds of properties, shops, houses, etc. that have been worked hard for hundreds of years? Don't property shops and other properties wait year after year for those small families to be swallowed up at a low price?

It's not easy. It's not only waiting for small households to suffer for a long time, but also it's not easy for them to take the initiative to create disasters. They need to spend money and pay attention to the impact and image.

The thousands of mu of farmland on the coastal plain outside Fucheng is even more so!

For more than a hundred years, many generations have accumulated a proud family property, which has disappeared all at once.

Gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy, painting, silk and satin, etc. these floating wealth have not been cleaned up, and those left in Xue Cheng are also gone.

These are not the biggest losses, the biggest loss is the population!

In fact, the gentry are well aware that population resources are the resources that deserve the most attention. Even if you have no money, land and industry, if you command hundreds of thousands of people to work, you can buy a big foundation in a short time by just relying on the proper way of labor.

The premise is that those hundreds and thousands of people under your command only need the most basic food and do not need other salaries.

In the modern science and technology society, even an ordinary graduate who is poor, no family background, no contacts and no ability can find a job with a monthly salary of 2000 yuan at most... But if you have hundreds of people who work according to your words, they only need to eat steamed bread and rice? After a month, moving bricks can make you rich and valuable.

The Xu family has accumulated for hundreds of years. When they first heard that Li Wangjiang was making trouble with two or three hundred armour elites, they raised the young and strong of two or three hundred armour elites in one incense burning time at the command of Li Wangjiang. Seventy eight percent of them were prostitutes.

You can imagine how many human resources there are in the Xu family of Nuo University!

But in the Xujiazhuang garden, two or three hundred young men are pulled up at any time. What about women such as maidservants? How many are the older and younger servants?

Outside the manor of the Xu family, how many domestic servants are there in their shops? How many domestic servants are there in the Xu Caravan and the salt farm?

But now, that's almost gone.

It's not all, it's almost because it's the housekeeper of the Xu family for many years, as well as the housekeeper's grandchildren and nephews who are helping the Xu family control this big ship.

At the level of the Xu family, their housekeeper, housekeeper's nephew's generation, life is much better than that of ordinary civilians in Qi. Another example is the steward of various shops, the steward of internal and external houses, etc.. They all went with them.

In the Xujia offshore caravan, those who could have been captain, first mate and boatswain were also helping to control other ships on the run.

But the Xu family is still in a serious shortage of manpower. Otherwise, they would not only drive three ships of more than 200 tons to sea at the moment. There are more than a dozen ships in the Xu family's own caravan.

More than a dozen 200-300 ton merchant ships are far less than the scale of more than a dozen nearly 1000 ton ships like the Xiao family, but it is not so easy for such "small boats" to run smoothly.

To recruit people in Liang Daofu, through the strength of the Liu family, an old business partner in the past, get it done as soon as possible and stay away as soon as possible. This is Xu Jiqian's decision in his heart.

Under these words, Xu Weifan smiled bitterly, "my father is right. Li Yuanshu is not terrible. What is terrible is the real immortal behind him. In myths and legends, all kinds of immortal gods and demons can destroy the sky and the earth. Where is only Li Yuanshu so weak as a tornado that overturns dozens of people?"

"The real immortal, I'm afraid, can't wave to make dozens or hundreds of Li Yuanshu."

"We can only give in. What I'm worried about now is that it's not easy for us to recruit people when we arrive at Liang Daofu. It's estimated that some businessmen from Liang Daofu have sent the news back there when we were sorting out our family property yesterday."

"As long as they are not too stupid, the gentry over there will also make smart choices. Li Yuanshu can't be resisted by a government. Maybe the Liu family and the like have recruited people in advance, sold their industries and ran away."

Speaking of this, Xu Weifan had some small desperate complaints, "in other words, since the immortal intervened in human affairs and promoted a Li Yuanshu in Xuecheng, can we have a happy land in the state of Lu?"

The immortal intervened in human affairs and promoted Li Yuanshu, making Xue Cheng a paradise for ordinary people, but this pair of gentry and giants is purgatory.

The paradise they yearn for is the beautiful times in the past when the people let them exploit and squeeze, suck marrow and swallow bones.

Even if they escape Yunzhou, what should they do and where should they escape if the immortal cultivates the second and third Li Yuanshu in other state capitals?

Now there are not enough people. They even have to worry about whether the sea route will be safe and whether it will be robbed and killed by pirates.

If what happened near Xue Cheng was known by the front-line bandits of Sanlang island and Yixian Island, even if the three wolf thieves used to do things under the command of the Xu family, they might not be able to turn back and swallow all their wealth.