Chapter 84 Happy to mention the killer whale team!
Jia Lian and his party took two large boats to sail down the Yangtze River until they reached the mouth of the Yangtze River. It only took them two days and nights.
Someone had already prepared three large boats with sharp bottoms and were waiting at the estuary. The group transferred to the large boats and continued south along the safe channel near the coastline.
The reason why he is so skilled is because Jia Lian has been eyeing water transportation before. In the past six months, [Jia Lian's Corps] has successively acquired six sea-going ships of different sizes from various maritime trade cities. The recent tasks of these sea-going ships are along the coast.
Explore the safe route from Guangdong and Guangxi to Beijing and Tianjin along the coastline.
Of course, water transportation must be a huge trouble. Hundreds of thousands of water workers are working together, and now they even have the reputation of a water gang in the world.
Not to mention the other officials, big and small, throughout the local systems of water and land transportation, there is almost no relevant official who does not get some benefits from it.
It is conceivable how much resistance there will be to changing the water transport system. But Jia Lian has no better choice, because compared with other systems such as the military system and the tax system, water transport is already considered a weak persimmon!
Why do you have to be a "soft persimmon"? Without him, as the top noble family, Rongguo Mansion and even the entire Jia family have not spoken out for too long!
If this continues, Rongguo Mansion will really fall into silence, at least in terms of momentum.
Another reason is that this time when I went south to meet Lin Ruhai, who would have known that Lin Ruhai, who was raised in Confucianism and upright, would actually be a die-hard loyalist of Emperor Baode, and actually wanted to use the foundation accumulated by the Lin family for generations to become the emperor.
Suppress the salt merchants in Jiangnan!
Isn't this seeking death?
As a time traveler + reborn person who understands the trend of the world of Red Mansions, Jia Lian naturally hates this feeling in his heart that "small trends can be changed, but big trends cannot be changed" even now that he is fully fledged.
What is the general trend in the world of Red Mansions? Isn’t it the inevitable decline of the Jia family?
Jia Lian, who has inherited the Rongguo Mansion, will never let this happen. In this case, let's play it big!
Besides, Jia Lian did not want to change the entire water transportation system. He would use sea ships to transport grain and goods from places such as Guangdong and Shanghai to Jinmen by sea, and then use the original land transportation from the Beijing-Tianjin area to roadside towns in the north.
Even shipping can be sent directly to the Liaodong Peninsula.
Such a plan will be of great benefit to both the country and the people. The Daqing court can save a lot of expenses, and the people on both sides of the canal can also avoid most of the corvee!
As for the backlash from the parties whose interests have been harmed, Rongguo Mansion can still handle it for now, and Rongguo Mansion only needs to withstand the early pressure!
The interests of river transportation have indeed been damaged, but Jia Lian has no intention of monopolizing this newly emerging route of maritime transportation. He currently only has a total of six large and small sea-going ships, and even if he wants to occupy them all, he does not have that big appetite.
As long as Rongguo Mansion can withstand the early pressure, there will naturally be countless people who want to follow suit. But if you want to get a share of the pie, at least on the water transport reform, you have to side with Rongguo Mansion!
Once this was done, the Jia family's momentum naturally rose again. Even if Emperor Baode wanted to touch the Jia family again in the future, he would have to think more carefully.
The most important thing is that this step is the starting point for Jia Lian's overseas development. Otherwise, Rongguo Mansion alone would be too weak to develop overseas, and the time required would be extended indefinitely.
Of course, these are just follow-up plans. Jia Lian went to Jiangnan this time to inspect the development of various strongholds.
At present, it is indeed difficult to expand overseas. The first and biggest difficulty is sea-going ships.
The group of literati in the middle and late Ming Dynasty did indeed do a lot of disgusting things, especially the literati who were born in the major families in the south of the Yangtze River. In order for their families to monopolize all the benefits of maritime trade, these people spent almost all the accumulation of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West during the Yongle period.
All burned to the ground!
Now the members of the [Jia Lian Legion] can only use various carrot and stick methods to poach people from the shipyards affiliated to the major families in the south of the Yangtze River. Even this is extremely inefficient.
Jia Lian can only take one step at a time, but no matter what, the smallest goal north of Malacca must be achieved!
Shanghai was already a relatively large county at this time. According to the county annals, the county's population at this time exceeded 400,000. Coupled with the habitual hiding of the population by the landlords and gentry, the actual population was at least 500,000.
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In other words, Shanghai already had great development value around 1750 AD. This is also where the [Jia Lian Army] currently has its largest stronghold on the coastline.
At this point, Jia Lian could actually sense the location of the [Blue Dragon Jade] more clearly, but thinking about the excellent role that group of black and white giant cute creatures would play in exploring safe routes in the future, Jia Lian decided to go up there.
After replenishing supplies, we continued sailing in the direction of the killer whales.
Next, Jia Lian and his party sailed south again on the sea for three days and two nights. In a certain sea area after crossing Zhoushan, they finally followed the guidance and encountered this group of killer whales!
When the three ships met the killer whales, the giant group of cute creatures did not appear on the sea, which caused the three ships to turn around and follow them for a distance under Jia Lian's guidance.
The group of killer whales on the other side also turned around under the control of [Blue Dragon Jade], finally surfaced from the bottom of the sea, and surrounded the three ships of Jia Lian and his party.
The "hat" that just happened to be on the star's head sent another message to it at close range: "Young man, quickly go to the bow of the ship in the middle. Your boss, I promise that your delicious food will be there!"
Xingxing's Kazilan's oversized eyes lit up instantly, and a lot of body fluids came out of her mouth. These days, it was often tempted by the "hat" boss using all kinds of gorgeous words to describe and decorate the food. Today, she finally got what she wanted.
I saw its six or seven meter long body "swishing" around the next ship and arriving in front of Jia Lian who was standing on the bow of the middle ship. Its huge head emerged from the sea and was full of energy.
I opened my mouth in anticipation.
Everyone on the boat couldn't help but marvel that this huge black and white dolphin actually wore a hat shining with the color of the blue group on its head!
Jia Lian asked Zhang Dada beside him to lift up some pieces of charcoal-roasted pork liver that had been prepared long ago and throw them into the mouth of Xingxing, who was waiting with his mouth open under the bow.
Wow~~
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This aroma, this texture, this...this is what Boss "Hat" said is the ultimate delicious food! Sure enough, Boss "Hat" didn't lie to me!
While Xingxing tasted the delicious food in his mouth with his tongue, he couldn't help but burst into tears. What kind of stuff did I eat before?
"嘤嘤~" (Not full yet, come again!)
The huge orca's appetite for food is indeed astonishing, and with the call of the stars, all the members of the orca pod gathered around.
The thousands of kilograms of various kinds of barbecued meats and roasted pork livers that Jia Lian prepared before setting off were fed to them very quickly. It seemed that they were not fully fed yet.
The military ration men have already tasted it, can they officially join the army?
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ps: For the sake of convenience, the names of the Personal Guards have been changed to [Jia Lian Legion]!
Thank you to the boss 20190227144933925 for the three hundred rewards. I wish you all the good guys you meet!
