My life skills in Daming Liver

Located in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, Yuegang is the largest smuggling port in the southeast after the destruction of Shuangyu Island.

Yuegang is located at the estuary of the Jiulong River. Because its harbor road is "a moat in the water, surrounded like a crescent moon", it is named Yuegang.

The port conditions of Yuegang are actually not as good as Fuzhou Port or Quanzhou Port, but its advantage is that it is not a big city, but a place where the government is weak, which is why it can become a smuggling center.

The town is prosperous, and the ancient city of Yuegang is small in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Another advantage of Yuegang is the developed water and land transportation.

Goods can go up the Jiulong River along the river, extending to Tingzhou Prefecture and even Yanping Prefecture. It is an important trading port that connects southern Fujian and northern Fujian, eastern Zhejiang and even Jianghuai.

Yuegang has routes to Japanese pirates, North Korea, and Ryukyu, and has trade relations with Malacca and Manila.

However, Su Ze hadn't set off for Yuegang yet, but he waited outside Dong'ao Island for a ship with the Yuegang flag.

"It's finally here."

Su Ze was wearing a mask and a Confucian long shirt, standing behind Lin Mojun who was wearing a full armor.

After Su Ze's "blacksmith" skills were modified, Lin Mojun's armor fit a lot better.

Every time Lin Mojun wears this set of armor, Su Ze always feels weird. Thinking of Lin Mojun, a heroic beauty, under this exaggerated and terrifying Japanese full armor, there is always a strange contrasting beauty.

Su Ze suppressed his thoughts and said: "These days we block the sea area, and of course the people in Yuegang can't sit still."

It was only then that Lin Mojun realized that the people from Yuegang came here because she pretended to be a deer king to rob ships these days.

For these maritime merchants colluding with Japanese pirates, Lin Mojun naturally didn't have any good impressions, and she didn't have any psychological pressure to rob them.

Originally, Lin Mojun was going to snatch the Yuegang boat, but Su Ze stopped her.

Yuegang is the largest underground trading center in Fujian. If Yuegang is robbed, how will the stolen goods be sold in the future?

In addition, Yuegang is also an important part of Suze's development plan for Penghu.

Because Yuegang is not only a paradise for smugglers, but also the starting point for overseas development and immigration of Fujian in modern times.

In modern history, for hundreds of years, Fujianese went to Nanyang and North and South America, basically starting from Yuegang.

Land conflicts in southern Fujian are more serious than those in northern Fujian. The conflicts between natives and residents, and between Fujian and Guangzhou are all rooted in the lack of land.

This also makes many people in Fujian who can't survive, choose to go overseas to find life.

This is how the wave of immigration to Moon Harbor began.

In the future, it was Yan Siqi, a Hong Kong businessman who was the first to organize immigrants from Fujian to develop Penghu. In those days, Yan Siqi formed an alliance with Zheng Zhilong and others, recruited refugees from Fujian to develop Penghu, and formed the earliest Penghu pioneering group.

So getting in touch with Yuegang itself was Su Ze's plan.

Now that the people from Yuegang come to the door by themselves, don't blame Su Ze for speaking loudly.

Lin Mojun's ghost mask faced Su Ze: "Why do I feel that you are coming up with some bad idea again?"

Su Ze touched the mask on his face and asked, "Is it so obvious?"

Lin Mojun nodded and said, "I can feel it every time you want to cheat people, this time you want to cheat people from Yuegang, right?"

Su Ze found that since she exposed Lin Mojun's female body, she gradually showed her girlish nature to Su Ze, and she was no longer as serious as before.

Su Ze touched the mask and said, "They are the ones who cheated!"

Lin Mojun naturally has no opinion on this, she is an officer, and Yuegang is a smuggler, of course she doesn't like these smugglers in Yuegang.

However, the theory called "sea power" that Su Ze instilled in her recently made Lin Mojun no longer reject businessmen as before.

Su Ze proposed a sea power as opposed to land power, and believed that power at sea is as important as power on land.

But mastering sea power is completely different from land power.

What land power requires is to control every piece of land and population.

But sea power does not need to completely occupy the territory, what is needed is the port, and even the port does not need to be occupied, only the right to trade is enough.

To maintain land power requires an army, but to control sea power requires a fleet.

This deeply shocked Lin Mojun, who is a hundred households of Haiwei. It was the first time she realized that her profession was so important.

But in the communication with Alfonso, Lin Mojun also understood the importance of the ocean.

Portugal, a tiny country, has made huge profits by relying on ocean trade.

They established a series of trade wars along the Indian Ocean in an attempt to monopolize the spice trade to the East.

Spain, Portugal's neighbor, even obtained a huge amount of gold and silver through colonization. Sailboats filled with gold traveled between the old and new continents, escorted by terrifying fleets.

Compared with Xiyi's naval development, Daming has lagged far behind. Lin Mojun thought more than once, what would happen if Xiyi's fleet sailed to Daming?

Su Ze's theory of sea power told Lin Mojun what Xiyi was fighting for in the future.

Important ports and valuable routes, in Su Ze’s description, the ocean is a treasure house, the navy is the weapon to fight for this treasure house, and the caravan is the key to obtain the treasure from the treasure house.

Although the merchants in Yuegang are greedy, Changningwei also needs a place to sell stolen goods, and Changningwei needs a more powerful angel investor.

Although the Second Young Master Yu is the best angel investor, he never asked about the details of the business without leaving his hands as the shopkeeper, but to invest in a fleet, it would not be enough to sell all the Second Young Master's property.

Yu Ergongzi is like the first wave of investors in the angel round, and the big ship Changningwei will need larger-scale financing next.

Yuegang is such a good choice.

Yan Jiali on the Yuegang Merchant Ship was in a heavy heart.

Who made himself unlucky.

The Yan family is a member of the Yuegang Chamber of Commerce, and one of the top talkers in Yuegang.

As one of Yuegang's speakers, he naturally has to bear Yuegang's responsibilities.

The people sent by the Yuegang Chamber of Commerce to negotiate on Dong'ao Island this time were selected by the Yuegang Chamber of Commerce by lottery.

The unlucky Yan family was the one who won the lottery.

And Yan Jiali is the unlucky one who won the lottery within the Yan family.

Yan Jiali felt that it was unreasonable. Is it really okay to send this unlucky guy to negotiate?

Yan Jiali had already prepared a coffin, but if he was buried in the belly of a fish, his family would have no choice but to erect a tomb for him.

Thinking of not being able to be buried in the family cemetery after his death, Yan Jiali felt even more sad, why was he so unlucky.

This is a Japanese pirate tycoon running across the southeast, Yan Jiali trembled when he thought of the achievements of the "Deer King" these days.

Soon, Yan Jiali saw the famous Centipede of King Lu. After seeing the emblem of the Antler family, Yan Jiali’s merchant ship docked slowly, and was escorted by two soldiers holding blunderbusses to the Centipede. deck.

Seeing King Lu's full armor at a glance, Yan Jiali stepped forward and saluted Lin Mojun.

"Yan Jiali, the envoy of Yuegang, has met King Lu."

Su Ze, who looked like a translator, nodded and bowed and translated Yan Jiali's words to Lin Mojun.

Yan Jiali then looked at Su Ze who was dressed as a Confucian scholar. This should be the Chinese translation of King Lu.

Lin Mojun nodded lightly, and then sat down firmly.

Yan Jiali complained even more in his heart, it seemed that this errand for him was more than auspicious.

Su Ze said in a relaxed tone: "Messenger of Yuegang, please see what my king is talking about?"

Yan Jiali looked at Su Ze. He reassessed Su Ze's identity. It seemed that this Han man was not only the translator of King Lu, but also his staff.

Yan Jiali said directly to Su Ze: "Yan came here this time to make an agreement with Captain Xu."

Captain Xu is naturally Xu Feng. Xu Feng is the pirate leader of the predatory faction and the nominal leader of King Lu.

Su Ze said lightly: "Captain Xu issued an order to invade the sea in May this year, and my king was ordered to attack Fujian."

Seeing Su Ze's calm attitude, Yan Jiali rekindled hope in his heart.

He cupped his hands and said, "Captain Xu once made an agreement with Yuegang not to attack ships entering or leaving Yuegang."

Su Ze shook his head and said, "That was an agreement on weekdays. Now that my king is attacking Fujian, what if the Ming army hangs the Yuegang flag and attacks our fleet?"

Yan Jiali complained in his heart, God damn the Ming army attacked you? Don't even look at the southeast coast. Is there a Ming army warship that dares to go to sea?

The navy of the Ming army in Fuzhou Prefecture did not dare to leave the port, and even took the initiative to attack you?

Yan Jiali could only bite the bullet and said: "We Yuegang merchants are just a group of businessmen. Your Majesty has sealed off the sea area. We have no ships to dock at Yuegang. Business is almost impossible."

Su Ze looked at Yan Jiali, only to hear Yan Jiali say again: "My lord, if Yuegang's business can't go on, then everyone's business can't go on either."

Yan Jiali was trembling nervously, but said this sentence in one breath.

It's a pity that King Lu and Su Ze are both wearing masks, so we can't see their expressions.

Su Ze said in a cold tone: "Is the Yuegang Chamber of Commerce trying to threaten my king?"

Su Ze said it to Lin Mojun in Japanese, and he gestured to Lin Mojun, and Lin Mojun immediately took out the Japanese sword he was wearing.

Yan Jiali was so frightened that he almost knelt down, but he still bite the bullet and said, "We, Yuegang, are businessmen, and businessmen only want to talk about business."

Su Ze made another gesture, and Lin Mojun put the Japanese sword back into the scabbard.

Su Ze then said: "My king likes courageous people, shopkeeper Yan, I don't know what you want to talk about?"

Yan Jiali knew that he had made the right bet, and it seemed that King Lu was already thinking of negotiating.

As long as we can talk, things will be fine.

Yan Jiali said: "In the future, please use the Merchant Ships of the Yuegang Ship to open the door. We, the Yuegang Chamber of Commerce, are willing to provide five hundred taels of silver per month to support the King Lu."

Su Ze sneered inwardly. The merchants were so profit-seeking that they colluded with Japanese pirates to such an extent.

But there is no reason not to slaughter the people from Yuegang who came to their door.

As for the colonization of immigrants and the purchase of Western weapons books, Yuegang is also needed.

Now all soldiers have to pay the army salary, Su Ze is still planning to continue to train the new army, repair ships and buy guns. Although Chang Ningwei has made a fortune, he can't just sit back and eat.

These days, Lin Mojun has also robbed some merchant ships as King Deer, but she also needs a way to cash out.

Five hundred taels of silver a month was a huge sum of money for the Changning Guard in the past, but the current Changning Guard is only the cost of training and raising troops for a month.

Raising soldiers is expensive!

Su Ze finally knew why Wan Ming collapsed so quickly.

The decaying bureaucratic machinery led to huge tax collection costs, coupled with the more corrupt Ming army, the money exploited by the Ming court could not be distributed to the soldiers at all.

Su Ze had read a lot of novels about wearing the late Ming Dynasty, and when he came up, he copied the houses of ministers and vassal kings.

Not to mention that you asked your ministers to ransack the house, whether one million taels of silver can be handed over to the court with one hundred thousand taels.

Not to mention whether these vassal kings will be ransacked honestly and wait for death, and whether they will spend more military expenses to counter the rebellion if they rebel.

The corrupt officialdom of the Ming Dynasty determined that the military issues in the late Ming Dynasty were not only economic issues, but also administrative issues.

The officials are not clear, and everything they do is in vain.

Taking back the messy thoughts, since Yuegang is willing to pay for Changning Guards to raise soldiers, Su Ze will naturally not be polite.

Su Ze said: "In addition to these, my king also has some goods, which also need Yuegang's help to deal with."

Hearing that Su Ze agreed, Yan Jiali was ecstatic, and he immediately said with confidence: "We, Yuegang, will directly buy all the goods of the king according to the market price!"

Su Ze also insisted that Yan Jiali be the middleman in the transaction between the two parties, and agreed that Yan Jiali would come to Dong'ao Island every month to buy the stolen goods at the market price.

After the deal was concluded, Su Ze sent Yan Jiali off the boat, cupped his hands and said, "My king appreciates the arrogance of shopkeeper Yan."

Yan Jiali felt bitter when he thought that he would come to Yuegang to buy goods every month in the future.

Yan Jiali hurried back to report to the Yuegang Chamber of Commerce, boarded the boat and said goodbye to Su Ze.

Su Ze suddenly asked: "Master Yan, your Yan family is from Zhangzhou Prefecture?"

Yan Jiali said: "Our Yan family has lived in Haicheng County, Zhangzhou Prefecture for generations, and has made a living by operating maritime trade. It has been four generations."

Haicheng County?

"King of Taiwan" Yan Siqi is also from Haicheng County, could it be that he is a child of this Yan family?

But Yan Siqi will not be born until forty years later, if he changes history by himself, he may not be able to see him again.

Su Ze said goodbye, and after dealing with the affairs on Dong'ao Island, Su Ze finally returned to Changningwei by boat.

But as soon as Su Ze returned to Changningwei, he met Lin Qingcai who came from the county.

Lin Qingcai immediately said after seeing Su Ze: "Brother Su! Xiong Yue!"

"What happened to Xiong Yue?"

"Xiong Yue is dead!"