In this festive atmosphere, Wang Bai's birthday banquet came to an end.

Although the actions of Zhang Zhen, the governor of Fujian and Guangzhou, caused a ripple in the officialdom of Guangdong, with the news that Wu Shan was appointed as the secretary of the ministry, the situation in Guangdong quickly returned to calm.

Both Zhang Zhen, the governor of Fujian and Guangzhou, and Huang Kun, the envoy of the procuratorate, knew that they could not afford to be involved in any turmoil, and Zhang Zhen left Guangzhou in disgrace the next day.

History has long proven that a relatively stable situation is conducive to social prosperity, and the rapid restoration of stability in Guangdong's situation has enabled Guangdong's regional economy to continue to develop rapidly.

The benefits of Kaihai are continuously being delivered to Guangdong, from top to bottom, almost everyone can benefit, and it makes this city of Guangzhou more and more prosperous.

After participating in Wang Bai's birthday banquet, Hu Niu stayed in Guangzhou City for a few days.

She visited Huang Dafu and others for her brother, and at the same time followed the good sisters she knew in the past to catch up, and then left Guangzhou City.

The successor of the Guangzhou prefect is Lei Changjiang, Lei Changjiang is an iron-faced and selfless official, and the politics here are very clear, and there are no unjust cases that need her to intervene.

She has been to Beijing and Nanjing, and she has always felt that Guangzhou is better, it is more vibrant, more inclusive, and more receptive to new things.

Instead of taking a boat down the Pearl River, she went to Foshan to visit the steel mills of the United Consortium and inspect the production of iron products there, a major income-generating project of the Associated Merchant Group.

After seeing the production of iron products in Foshan, she took a boat down the Xijiang River. While in the port of Xiangshan, she boarded the big black ship and led a combined fleet towards Luzon.

This time the size of the fleet was very strong. In the center was a large black ship, with two three-masted gunboats clearing the way in front, and around it were more than twenty ships of various sizes.

Mu Ying led the people of the Haidong tribe to drive a three-masted gunboat, and Lin Dayan led the people of the Green Tiger Gang to drive another three-masted gunboat, leading the formation with two pincers.

Not to mention encountering pirates or pirates, even if it encounters a Spanish fleet, it will not be easy to lose, this fleet is enough to sail the entire South Sea region.

Knock knock knock......

With the sound of a drum, the flotilla headed for Luzon in a fixed formation.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the sailors have never been defeated, and in the past, they galloped in the oceans with an invincible attitude, which were all wealth, so that the Ming Dynasty mastered a wealth of water battle formations.

Under the impetus of Lin Haoran, the Combined Fleet also attached great importance to the formation drill, and the formation was changed through the sound of drums and flags, which was enough to deal with all unexpected situations.

The fleet sails on the clear sea, and under the water are schools of fish of different colors.

Although the fleet was ready to fight at any time, there were no accidents along the way, but no pirates or pirates dared to attack the combined fleet, and they didn't even dare to show their faces in front of them.

On the way to Luzon, the sea is a bit lively, and you can see merchant ships from time to time.

Tiger Girl was confused at first, but soon learned what was going on.

Today, the route from Xiangshan to Luzon has become the most important route, and Ming merchant ships often travel between the two places.

Daming's commodities have been ahead of the world, and it is undoubtedly a priceless existence for Nanyang, which is extremely lacking in means of living. It is precisely in this way that Daming's goods are sought after by the people of Nanyang.

In particular, the myth of a poor merchant who got rich by exchanging an iron pot for a bag of spices has made many young people yearn for Nanyang and have thrown themselves into the gold rush of Nanyang.

Although the United Trading House had a monopoly on the spice trade with the Portuguese, it had a clear price tag for spices.

No matter who it is, it is the same. After these young people got the spices, they didn't need to worry about the sale of the spices at all, so that many adventurous rich people of the Ming Dynasty went to the South Seas to exchange for spices, so as to make a lot of money in the spice trade.

It was under the impetus of the United Merchant Group that the Ming Dynasty became a middleman in the spice trade between the Nanyang and the Portuguese, so that many Ming merchants carried goods to the South Seas in exchange for goods such as spices or pearls.

"Miss, is that a dolphin?"

"Wow! It's jumping, it's a dolphin! ”

……

The little rabbit was lying on the railing, looking fussed.

The tiger girl in a bullfighting suit stood in front of the guardrail, squinting at the little white whale jumping high in the distance, but she reluctantly corrected: "The dolphin is not so big, it is a beluga whale!" ”

The little rabbit turned his head to look at the tiger girl's serious appearance, and nodded as if he didn't understand, feeling that his young lady was so powerful, and he knew more things than those old masters.

"Tiger girl, I'm afraid this trip is a little unsmooth!"

Wu Daoxing came to the deck and stood, pretending to pinch his fingers.

Hu Niu turned her head and glanced at Wu Daoxing, but her brows were deeper, in fact, since she boarded the ship, she also felt a little uneasy in her heart.

But she seemed to be overthinking, and the road was smooth, and the ship kept moving on the calm sea.

After several days of sailing, everyone finally came across a large green island, which is the famous Luzon Island. The fleet continued south along the western line of the island, and from time to time saw natives running and cheering on the beach.

After another half a day, they finally saw a city.

The United Merchant Group was now entrenched in the northern part of Luzon, where they built ports and cities, and carried out relatively large-scale relocation, making it a paradise for the overseas people of the Ming Dynasty.

The fleet landed at Union Port and saw that a lot of cotton and peppers had been grown on the island, which was already an important base for the United Merchant Group.

With the establishment of the city here by the United Chamber of Commerce, more and more people from Liangguang are willing to come here. Through the cooperative model and the promise of property rights, they went from proletarians in the Ming Dynasty to large families in Luzon.

After seeing the farmland around the castle, the first-time visitors were stunned. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never have imagined that the island would have such fertile fields and so many crops growing here.

After only staying for one day, Hu Niu chose to continue southward and continue to march towards Cebu Island.

After so many years, the power of the United Business Group has not only penetrated into the Visayas, but also extended to Mindanao, and its influence has long spread throughout the Philippine Islands.

Chen Zhixiao and Weng Huasong, the two most outstanding young generations of the joint business group, also followed Hu Niu to the south, and they had already guessed that Hu Niu had an extraordinary move on this trip, which was to push the joint business group to a new level.