With this more powerful sub-cannon, it is more certain to cross the river, so the next step is to transform the warship into a gunboat that can use these guns!

The navy of the Southern Dynasties was extremely powerful, and there were not only many varieties of warships, but also a large number: the big ships included the Golden Wing, the Qinglong, the Pingyu, and the Lou ships, and in addition there were various special ships such as Mengchong, fighting ships, fire boats, and waterwheels, and the entire naval army had nearly 1,000 warships!

So Xiao Yao didn't need to spend too much effort to let Wu Mingche watch the test firing of this kind of sub-mother cannon, and he immediately asked Xiao Yao to go to the dock to pick and choose, and he could see whichever one he liked!

Xiao Yao did not choose the largest five-story ship that could carry 800 soldiers as suggested by Wu Mingche, but chose a medium-sized, 20-meter-long, and 4-meter-wide two-story wooden sailing ship for transformation, citing its speed and flexibility!

Xiao Yao knew that the reason why Wu Mingche wanted to install artillery on a capital ship like the Lou Ship was because he would board this kind of Lou Ship to command the battle, so he smiled and said: "The big ship must be equipped with a cannon, if you give me tens of thousands of catties of copper to cast a bronze cannon, I will choose the Lou Ship to transform!" Suddenly, Wu Mingche had nothing to say.

As for the transformation of the warship, it is not too much of a project, only a few gun embrasures need to be opened on both sides of the ship, and the gun mounts are fixed with arm-thick hemp rope in the cabin, and the gun will be easily disassembled at that time!

Since this kind of wooden sailing ship could only carry less than a hundred people, Xiao Yao asked Wu Mingche for two troop transport ships, which were specially used to transport soldiers and supplies from the infantry battalion.

And the soldiers are even more fine, Chen Guo's army is basically marines, the boat is a navy, and the boat is infantry, so there is no need to worry about these veterans of the infantry battalion getting seasick after getting on the ship!

When he saw these three big ships, Xiao Yao was a little surprised: his own army doesn't even have cavalry yet, but he has a navy first!

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Just as Xiao Yao was methodically training the infantry battalion, Zhang Dai of Yinhai Commercial Bank was also planning an action against General Motors!

Since neither administrative nor economic means can hit the general commercial banks, then we will come to the black means!

Since ancient times, the salt and iron government and the salt industry have been monopolized, resulting in extremely high salt prices and very high profits, so the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are often reckless, trafficking in illegal salt in order to make personal gains, and over time a gang of trafficking in illegal salt has been formed, which is called the "Salt Gang"!

The Salt Gang has a large number of people, all of them are ruthless people, they carry weapons, or dozens or hundreds of actions, if they encounter officers and soldiers patrolling, they will take the initiative to attack, and their strength is not weaker than the army!

Wuxing County is the salt production base of Chen State, and the Salt Gang here is even more powerful, and Yinhai Commercial Bank has a monopoly on Chen Guo's salt industry, so it naturally has to deal with the Salt Gang.

But Zhang Dai is also a capable person, he did not directly face the conflict with the Salt Gang, but through the Zhao'an model, the Salt Gang was taken under his banner, and the smuggling activities of the Salt Gang were protected in the name of the government, so that the Salt Gang was the king and hegemonic in the Wuxing County area, and the Yinhai Commercial Bank had the support of the prince behind it, which made everyone dare not speak out about it!

When the General Commodity Bank stretched out his hand to Wuxing County, Zhang Dai thought of asking the Salt Gang to make some trouble for him, and he knew that Zu Yuan was not a fuel-efficient lamp, although he was using some ordinary business to enter Wuxing County, but he would definitely focus on salt making in the future, which was the foundation of Yinhai Commercial Bank, so he had to strike first!

Before the general firm under the banner of Xingwang to open up markets around the world, the local Taishou is also the green light, laughing all the way, for fear of offending Xingwang, and this time Wuxing County is no exception, plus Zu Yuan brought a batch of new paper armor, so that Wuxing County Taishou Xu Jingcheng is even more overjoyed, the relevant official documents of the general firm branch are personally approved, and it will be passed immediately!

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On this day, Zu Yuan, who looked solemn, hurriedly ran to the infantry battalion to find Xiao Yao: "Young master, something happened to our branch in Wuxing County!" ”

"What's the matter?" Xiao Yao was also shocked, it was definitely not a trivial matter for Zu Yuan to come to him so urgently.

"Our branch and all the stores and workshops in Wuxing County have been smashed!" Zu Yuan said angrily.

"All? What the hell is going on? Xiao Yao was even more shocked!

At that time, Zu Yuan entered Wuxing County, because Xu Jingcheng owed a favor to Xiao Yao and General Paper Mill, so he very warmly welcomed Zu Yuan to open the business of General Commercial Bank into Wuxing County.

With the full cooperation of Taishou, Zu Yuan soon spread all kinds of businesses of the General Commercial Bank in Wuxing County, selling sugar stores and iron stalls, and because Zhejiang produces bamboo, it is convenient to make bamboo paper, so he opened a lot of papermaking workshops in Wuxing County.

"Some time ago, our fleet to Wuxing County was robbed, and the goods on board were gone, and as a result, someone from the branch over there immediately came to make trouble because they failed to deliver on time! Later, it developed to besiege and smash all the local industries related to general commercial banks! The people we filmed in the past were injured a lot, but they didn't dare to cause death, they just injured and maimed! Zu Yuan slammed his fist and said, as if he had encountered a similar situation before.

"Did Yinhai Comptoir do it? Have you been in this situation before? Xiao Yao saw Zu Yuan's thoughts.

"The young master is wise! It's definitely them! If you can't win, you will be hacked! When I first came to Jinling, they found an excuse to smash my firm and drive me out of Jinling! Zu Yuan remembered the humiliation of the year, and gritted his teeth with hatred.

"What did Xu Jingcheng say?" Xiao Yao asked.

"He's been with the mud! First of all, these need commercial disputes, let us mediate privately, let them go to exterminate those robbers, and said that they are busy with the Northern Expedition, and it is difficult to draw out manpower, let him arrest those who injured our guys, and said that no one died, and they are local people, so they should also be reconciled. Zu Yuan was very angry, and he deliberately gave the paper armor to Xu Jingcheng before.

"Humph! When it comes to Yinhai Commercial Bank and the crown prince, of course he doesn't dare to offend both sides! Who dared to do this, it was organized and premeditated, and it should not be an ordinary robber! Xiao Yao calmed down.

"It's the Salt Gang!" Zu Yuan said affirmatively.

"The Salt Gang? Who are they? "Xiao Yao heard of this organization for the first time.

"It's a salt dealer who sells salt and smuggles it! Wuxing Linhai produces salt, these salt dealers were taken over by Yinhai Commercial Bank, under the banner of official salt but still engaged in smuggling work, they have earned a lot of silver for Yinhai Commercial Bank over the years, and their influence is getting bigger and bigger, Xu Jingcheng can't control them! "Zu Yuan has investigated all the circumstances.

"With the prince behind, he doesn't want to take care of it! And let us take care of the losses first, there is nowhere to complain! This matter is useless even if you look for King Xing! Xiao Yao analyzed.

"Shall we just leave it at that? Not to mention the loss this time, it will be difficult for us to return to Wuxing market in the future! Zu Yuan said worriedly.

"I've been bullied to the head, will I count? They think that we can't help him if we play yin? They're smugglers, and I have a reason to kill them! Xiao Yao's eyes were full of murderous energy!