In order to build and control such a ferry outside Jinling City, the personal guards led by Jia Sidao killed a lot of blood!
Naturally, people from the Jia clan came forward to say hello to people at the government level, but Jianghu Caomang and the wealthy gentry who originally lived nearby were not so easy to deal with, and in the end they had to rely on the knife to speak!
In the past few years, the number of Jia Lian's personal guards has expanded to 3,000. To accommodate so many people, of course the required stronghold cannot be just Xiaguan Ferry.
Perhaps because of the habit of following Xiao rules and regulations, the Daqing Dynasty also roughly followed the policy of banning seas in the late Ming Dynasty. Only a few customs cities were allowed to trade with foreigners.
At this time, Guangdong was the largest customs city. Here, Jia Lian's personal guards also used their extremely strong fighting power to take over one of the four docks in Guangdong City.
As well as Wanwan and Hujian, they also secretly controlled several deep-water ports and built new private docks!
At the same time, several shipyards built in recent years there are also absorbing a large number of talents to prepare for Jia Lian's next move.
Based on the timeline of previous lives and calculated based on the time when Emperor Chongzhen hung on the crooked tree, Jia Lian is currently in about 1750 AD. The flower growers of this period can barely be considered to be among the best in the world.
Top.
But the vigorous voyage of Europa has been going on for almost 200 years, and flower growers are very likely to fall from the top of the world.
Of course, there is extraordinary power in this world. Will the historical processes in the continent of Europa and the outside world be exactly the same in previous lives? Will various revolutions in European countries break out smoothly with the suppression of extraordinary power? These are all
Still a question mark.
But this does not prevent Jia Lian from actively exploring the outside world, just in case the world trend is still the same as the process in the previous life.
If it is really in the stage of great navigation, then Jia Lian will never allow the flower growers in this world to miss this great opportunity to grab territory. At least, the two large islands and a peninsula around Malacca and all the ocean areas to the north must
Seize it, this is the bottom line!
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Even if all this has not happened yet, wouldn't it be a good thing to go out and see the extraordinary power of the white people in Europe?
However, before going to sea in the future, we must test the threat of current guns and artillery to Houtian realm warriors and Xiantian realm masters.
I heard that the foreigners who came to trade in several customs cities in Daqing were equipped with a considerable number of smoothbore cannons and muskets on their ships.
During this period, there were only a very small number of matchlock troops in the Daqing army, and almost all the Daqing cannons were extremely heavy and generally only suitable for defending the city!
With the rate of fire and power of the matchlock gun, it is already relatively powerless for acquired warriors. At best, it can only be regarded as a powerful hidden weapon that is extremely troublesome to operate.
Similarly, the artillery of the Daqing Dynasty is indeed a threat to the Xiantian realm masters in terms of power, but in terms of hit rate, such a threat is almost zero, because after the martial arts will of the Xiantian masters is condensed, they will have an almost whim-like feeling.
dangerous intuition.
Unless it comes from the legal level, higher-level power can generally block this kind of martial arts intuition. Therefore, unless they are in a desperate situation, few innate masters will stand there stupidly waiting for you to blast a bunch of cannons.
But even if Daqing's guns pose no threat to them, what about the Europeans' guns? This is information that needs to be focused on.
You must know that even if Jia Lian's personal guard already has more than 2,000 Houtian realm peak warriors, he has less than 30 innate grandmasters!
Every innate master is extremely precious!
Sites like Xiaguan Ferry, the wharf in Guangdong, and several deep-water ports, which can earn huge amounts of money every day or have key secrets, only require a hundred personal guards and an innate master to be in charge and they can be as stable as Mount Tai!
Even this usage seems to be a bit contemptuous of the status of the innate master, that is, Jia Lian is qualified to do this because of cheating.
Therefore, Jia Lian's trip to Jiangnan this time was actually mainly to inspect the preliminary preparations for building ships and going to sea to seize land.
By the way, we should select one or two suitable maritime merchants, purchase their fleets, and then send some personal guards to start the maritime trade of Ryukyu, Fuso, Liaodong and Southeast Asian countries. This is the first step.
At Xiaguan Ferry, Jia Lian and his party boarded the three-story boat that had been arranged and headed for Yangzhou.
In the land south of the Yangtze River, there are dense water networks, and there are not many large rivers that can handle three-story boats. Jia Lian and others spent a night on the boats, and arrived at a dock outside Yangzhou City at noon the next day.
There were already two carriages and a group of Lin family servants waiting on the pier. This was indeed the reason why Jia Quan, who was standing in front of the station, informed Jia Min.
There was a pretty woman in the carriage in front of her, constantly looking towards the river bank through the carriage window.
It wasn't until she saw the three-story boat with the Jia flag hanging slowly approaching the pier that the pretty woman breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly lowered the curtains, pretending to be calm.
Jia Lian had just stepped off the boat and stretched himself hard when someone on the dock tried to get close to him.
When his way was blocked by his own guards, he stopped appropriately and asked.
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Lian from Shenjing City?"
"Oh, exactly, who are you?"
"I have met Young Master Lian Biao. The old man Lin Er is the housekeeper of the Lin family in Suzhou. Today I am waiting for you here with my wife."
"My aunt is here? Haha, please ask the housekeeper to lead the way."
Jia Lian raised his head and glanced around, and sure enough, not far away, he saw Jia Quan and others on horseback guarding a small convoy with two carriages.
The group of people followed Butler Lin towards the motorcade, and when they came closer, Jia Lian saw the figure behind the curtain in the first carriage through the small window.
"Hey, our Aunt Min came to pick her up in person. I'm really flattered!"
Hearing Jia Lian's long-lost voice, the curtain of the carriage window opened a gap, revealing half of his pretty face that was both angry and happy.
Looking at the familiar features of the young man in white in front of her, Jia Min felt a hundred kinds of feelings welling up in her heart.
That little boy who fell into a coma at the age of five and almost died, then lost his brother, mother, and grandfather one after another, has finally grown up!
"You are such an old man and yet you are so shameless!"
Jia Lian didn't reply, just smiled and looked quietly at the familiar eyes behind the gap in the curtain. She is now a wife and mother. Time flies so fast!
"What are you looking at? Why don't you get in the car quickly? Your uncle should have come back from the Yamen at this time and is waiting for you."
"good!"
Jia Lian asked Zhiyu and other female family members to board the last carriage, while he climbed onto a horse led by Jia Quan.
He drove the horse and followed Jia Min's carriage. The aunt and nephew entered Yangzhou City talking and laughing along the way.
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Please give me a ticket! The current monthly ticket ranking is still behind 1100.
The recommendation vote ranking is even more embarrassing, ranking 444th!
