Chapter 165 Jia Lian: I also want to seek longevity!
Chapter 165 Jia Lian: I also want to seek immortality!
Then we can take advantage of the situation and approach Malacca. With Liu Changgong and Dahei here, as long as the Castilians don't have more than two legendary strongmen guarding the Far East, winning this key place is almost a sure thing!
After this, the Daqing Navy only needs to hold on to Malacca, and then it can slowly free up its hands to clean up the inland sea areas north of Malacca!
By then...
Of course, you have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. Malacca is still a little far away for now, and we still have to reach Manila Bay first!
On the long-explored route, the huge fleet of the Nanyang Fleet is extremely conspicuous. Its main force is nearly 50 imitation Galenic sailing ships with two masts in the front and a triangular sail in the back.
It is about 50 meters long, with a displacement of 1,000 tons, several long decks, and a high poop.
Galenic galleons have been the standard warships in the Atlantic waters since the mid-16th century more than 100 years ago.
It has a double deck from bow to stern, with main battle artillery installed on the sides, and other light rapid-fire artillery on the fore and aft shipbuildings.
Also arranged on the front line are armed merchant ships, which are responsible for providing light fire support to the Galenic galleons.
The Castilian Spanish Armada was defeated miserably in the late 16th century by the English fleet, which was dominated by smaller tonnage "Galen" type sailing battleships.
This was also one of the key battles that caused the Castilians to fall from their position as ocean hegemons. After learning from the pain, the Galenic sailing ships built by the Castilian people actually became the best among this type of sailing ships.
The Galenic sailing ship they built also has a larger Galenic ship with greater endurance, with a stern deck of 7 levels, a displacement of 2,000 tons, and a draft of 8 meters. It is the top cargo ship of this era.
Unfortunately, such large galenic ships require higher technical requirements for shipbuilders and more stringent material requirements. The current shipyards in Daqing cannot build them yet.
However, the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce has been actively introducing talents related to natural sciences such as shipbuilding and artillery to foreign countries. However, this is destined to be a long-term work and it is difficult to see results in a short period of time.
The East China Sea Chamber of Commerce was able to obtain the blueprints for building Galenic sailing ships before, and hired several master craftsmen to complete the construction of these 50 Galenic sailing ships with a large sum of money. This was already a big surprise.
The current number of artillery pieces in the Nanyang Fleet is actually insufficient. The gun emplacements on many battleships are even fake cannons made of wood, which only look bluffing.
However, the original battle plan of the Nanyang Fleet was not to focus on artillery warfare. At present, Daqing is far inferior to the Western countries in terms of artillery technology and artillery warfare talents. It cannot be stupid enough to use its own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths.
Originally, Jia Lian sent Liu Changgong and Dahei just to let them lead many innate masters to carry out a crushing strike at the high-end combat level!
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The Nanyang Fleet was sailing towards Manila Bay at sea, but Jia Lian was in Rongxi Hall to receive three Buddhist monks headed by the abbot of Linggu Temple.
In the main hall, monk Jie Ai San raised his head and saw a large red gold plaque on the green ground of Kowloon. On the plaque were written three Chinese characters: "Rongxi Hall".
There is a line of small characters at the end: "On a certain year, month and day, a letter was given to Jia Yuan, Duke of Rongguo", and there is also "Treasure of tens of thousands of Chen Han".
In the middle of the hall, there is a large red sandalwood carved chi table, with a green bronze tripod about three feet high, hanging to be followed by a large ink dragon painting.
There are sixteen nanmu chairs lined up in two rows on the ground floor, and there is a pair of couplets, which are ebony couplets inlaid with chiseled silver calligraphy, saying: On the seats, the sun and moon shine brightly, and in front of the hall, the pavement glows with haze.
A line of small characters below reads: "My fellow disciples from the same hometown came to visit King Mu of Dong'an County and paid homage to him in his handwritten calligraphy."
Among the sixteen chairs in the main hall, there is already one person sitting on the next one, but it is none other than Jia Quan, the only legendary warrior in the [Jia Lian Legion]!
Jia Quan's majesty is as high as Yuan Ting's, and his appearance is dignified, full of heaven, square mouth and broad nose.
What's more important is that the icy atmosphere of everything frozen around him was deliberately revealed, making the wrinkled old faces of the three abbots of the three major Buddhist temples look even more bitter.
It’s true that comparing people to each other will lead to death, and comparing goods to goods will have to be thrown away!
Jia Quan's name has already become famous with the government affairs of the five northern provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Lu, Cha, and Sui.
And Jia Quan's deeds of successfully ascending to the higher realm of innateness at the age of just over 40 years old and becoming one of the few legendary strong men in the world have already spread throughout the world.
It was only this time that the general public learned through the propaganda of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce that the Xiantian Grandmaster was not the strongest master in the world. There was another realm above the Xiantian Grandmaster, which was the "Legendary Realm"!
It is said that such a strong man can actually match a hundred thousand troops, and even defeat them in battle.
Although there is no actual record to prove this statement, it is an indisputable fact that during the process of land clearing in the five northern provinces, more than three innate grandmaster-level bandits were killed and captured in each province.
Because the team of officials who went to the five provinces to promote the sharing of land and land were also accompanied by people from the Donghai Chamber of Commerce.
Their main job is to follow up and record the problems encountered by Qingzhang Tianmu, and publish them in the form of follow-up reports in Daqing News, a new newspaper issued by Di Bao and the Donghai Chamber of Commerce.
Of course, they may also have a final role in supervising the officials responsible for measuring the fields!
These officials who were sent to clear the land were not necessarily clean. If they colluded with local gentry officials, it might even affect the success or failure of the New Deal.
The reason why the Donghai Chamber of Commerce issued another copy of "Daqing News" was naturally to compete with the gentry class who have the right to speak.
Among them, after Qingzhang Tianmu's team suffered several attacks, every time a strong innate master was killed, the entourage of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce would always come forward to record the master's martial arts, appearance and other characteristics in detail, and make them public.
As for the captured Xiantian Grandmasters, they were interrogated by the legendary strongman personally. The first interrogation record published in "Daqing News" came from Jia Quan.
Because the team that Jia Quan was in charge of at that time was suddenly attacked by four innate masters, and one person died and two were injured!
Jia Quan was furious on the spot, and with all his strength, a terrifying cold wave swept across the area for more than ten miles!
Fortunately, he still retained his sense when he was angry. Under Jia Quan's careful control, the others were doing well. It was just that the environment suddenly changed from the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month to the coldest twelfth lunar month of winter.
But the four innate masters were in dire straits. Two blue translucent icebergs, one large and one small, suddenly appeared out of thin air with Jia Quan's rage.
It enveloped these three innate masters from unknown forces and froze them inside the iceberg!
The people on the side could even see their horrified pale faces in the two icebergs where three and one innate masters were frozen.
Then, the innate master who was the first to take action was directly frozen to death by the furious Jia Quan, who used all his strength to activate the ice field!
After reporting the matter to Jia Lian through the system, Jia Quan learned that his team was the first to suffer casualties, and he almost went crazy.
Immediately, they interrogated the other three Xiantian Grandmasters harshly before they had time to take action, and luckily saved their lives.
That rare scene and the final confession greatly excited the "reporters" of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce who followed this team. These are all important figures in the world.
It feels really good to see them unlucky enough to fall in front of the boss of their own chamber of commerce!
Being able to obtain the confessions of these people, and even allow them to write about these people's deeds, is a matter that can be prominently exposed within the chamber of commerce. If this is done, they will definitely gain both fame and fortune, and even have a negative impact on their future futures.
It is also of great benefit.
The body of the innate master who was killed was not even spared. Instigated by someone who was watching the fun and suspected something serious, Jia Quan angrily injected a lot of the power of the original law into the small iceberg that sealed the innate master.
And he erected it outside the east gate of Shuozhou City!
It’s clear that just kill a chicken and stand it here to show the monkey!
It is estimated that if this iceberg is not deliberately destroyed by people of the innate grandmaster level, it may be able to stand for more than a hundred years!
But some people really just followed this trick. Ever since Jia Quan killed an innate master, captured three others, and punished them as coolies, this news spread throughout the world through "Daqing News".
The resistance in Jin Province and even the other four provinces to Qingzhang Tianmu suddenly subsided...
The occurrence of this incident is the fundamental reason why the land clearing operation in the five northern provinces was completed in just a few months.
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When the three old monks entered the Hall of Rongxi, they did not dare to show their support after seeing Jia Quan. They quickly clasped their hands together and bowed to pay homage.
Jia Quan didn't have any objections to the monks. Buddhism actually had a pretty good reputation among the lower classes. After all, they were able to trick believers into donating money and materials, and even the more pious ones were willing to donate to the Buddha themselves. Naturally, this reputation was not bad.
go!
The abbots of the three major Buddhist temples are naturally majestic and full of compassion. With their gorgeous cassocks and extraordinary cultivation equivalent to the innate realm of martial arts, they naturally look like eminent monks.
"Amitabha, the poor monk and others paid homage to Senior Jia. It is a great blessing to be able to meet Senior Jia today."
"Haha~ Thank you three for your support, but I am still young and cannot be called the senior of the three masters."
"You deserve it, you deserve it! As the saying goes, there is no priority in learning, and those who have mastered it are teachers. Senior Jia can advance to the legendary realm at a young age. He may not have the opportunity to climb to a higher realm in the future, and he can guide the way forward for us junior students!
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When Jia Lian came to Rongqing Hall from Tang Hou, he saw three old monks with gray eyebrows, who were surrounding Jia Quan and praising him.
"Ahem~"
Jia Lian has just returned from the main hall of Longshou Palace. He is wearing a four-clawed python pattern on his body. He looks energetic and heroic. With a handsome face, he is a young Wuhou who is invincible in the world!
"Amitabha, the general deserves to be the queen of martial arts! Although the tiger and the leopard are like colts, they have the spirit of eating cattle. There are four kings and eight princes in the founding of this dynasty, and the Jia family is the only one. They are really the pillars of the country, the honor of the country, and the poor.
Although the monk is a foreigner, he has always had respect for your house."
"Master Liao praised it. I just heard in Longshou Palace that Buddhism has expressed its willingness to support the imperial court's implementation of the new policy. It seems that the majority of Buddhists are still interested in the world."
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The Buddhists really gave in and recognized him thoroughly. Not only did they donate 10 million taels of silver to the court, but they were also willing to send 2,000 Houtian-level warrior monks, 200 Dharma monks and 20 innate-level masters from the three realms to join Jia Lian's family.
Come on, follow his orders.
There is only one requirement, which is a large island that can live in and support 100,000 people as mentioned before!
And within half a month at the latest, these people will be able to gather at the Tianjin port, and it is expected that they will be just in time to catch up with the second batch of fleets setting off for Manila, Luzon.
Jia Lian chatted with the three abbots for a while and then sent them away.
The reason why these three people are received in the mansion today is because Jia Lian needs them to present many classics passed down by Buddhism over the years.
His own practice is basically the way of refining gods in this world, but the inheritance of this world seems to be cut off when it reaches the innate level equivalent to the legendary realm.
Jia Lian was very interested in knowing more about the story behind the scenes. After all, the story of people in Taoist sects seeking immortality has a long history.
I wonder if I can combine the extraordinary system of the "Game World" with the god-training method of the Red Mansion World. Jia Lian is also very interested in immortality!
Also, Qin Keqing's progress in spiritual cultivation is too slow, and Jia Lian is currently collecting the mage inheritance from the "Game World".
Qin Keqing, Wang Xifeng, Zhiyu, Ping'er and even Li Wan, if possible, Jia Lian certainly hopes that they can accompany him to the end of the world.
Recently, there have been many things that have left Jia Lian busy. Originally, it stands to reason that in the first battle of the Nanyang Fleet in Manila on Luzon Island, he should have at least let the second soul control the [Blue Dragon Jade] to the battlefield in person.
It's just that at this moment, Jia Lian's second soul is already on his way to Zaoge Mountain. He has long wanted to visit Zaoge Mountain, but he has been delayed by other things and has not been able to make the trip.
Now he is preparing to collect a large amount of extraordinary inheritance information from all parties in the Red Mansion World and the "Game World". He will sort it out and summarize it first to see if he can gain anything. He will talk about the rest later!
There are indeed a lot of things to do, but it should not be too big. Anyway, he has a mobile team of at least three legendary powerhouses around him, including himself and [Moonlight], which is enough to handle everything.
Jia Quan went out to see off the three abbots of Buddhism and took care of the chores of the personal guards. Jia Lian was left alone to sit in the Rongxi Hall and meditate.
At this time, Qin Keqing came to Rongxi Hall. She was wearing a palace dress with peony and phoenix patterns and was extremely elegant.
Needless to say, this somewhat taboo palace dress was naturally a gift from the queen and the queen mother.
Now everyone knows that Qin Keqing, Princess Yongji, is the Queen Mother's favorite.
Looking at Keqing's green silk hair, her pretty face that is as beautiful as snow, her lips are red, her eyebrows are green, and her eyes are full of spring charm. Jia Lian couldn't help but hold her beautiful hand and give her a slight smile.
So frivolous.
Jia Lian has seen many beauties in his previous life, but those as beautiful as Ke Qing and as charming as this are rare in the world.
If the shoulders are cut into shape, the waist will be as plain as it should be.
The neck is extended to show off the neck, and the beauty is revealed.
The fragrance is unparalleled, and the lead is unparalleled.
