Hearing that Liu Ximing was the top student in high school, Yang Yipeng was even more dumbfounded, and then heard the movements of Yang Sichang, Wen Tiren and other courts, the former governor of Caoyun suddenly felt a surge in his heart.

"It's a pity that the old man has been demoted to this, otherwise he will definitely show his skills in the court."

Yang Yipeng talked about the past, and his eyes were full of depression.

Liu Ximing had no choice but to hurriedly comfort: "Yang Gong doesn't have to worry too much, although Yang Shangshu has not been able to enter the cabinet now, but the momentum of the court is better than one day, this time to return to the court, Liu will find a way to let Yang Gong return to the court as soon as possible." ”

"Really?" , Yang Yipeng's old eyes widened, and his eyes were full of hope, "Hahaha, so thank you Wujiang, if the old man is still in the court, you are the old man's great benefactor." ”

With Liu Ximing's promise, Yang Yipeng suddenly felt a hundred times more energetic, and finally remembered to ask Liu Ximing for the purpose of coming this time.

"Yazhou is in a remote corner, I don't know why the little friend of Wujiang is here, don't say that you came to see the old man."

"Don't dare to hide it from Yang Gong, this time it is a study tour, Liu has long been fascinated by the blue waves and blue sea, and took advantage of this time to ask His Majesty for leave, so he wanted to go to Qiongzhou."

"Second, Liu's family has a lot of products, and the sales in Sichuan have reached the extreme, so I want to try my luck in the South China Sea, and I still have something to ask for when I visit Yang Gong this time."

Yang Yipeng's ears were hot, and when he heard this, he immediately slapped the table, "But for the sake of selling goods in Yazhou, it's a trivial matter, but the people of Yazhou are poor, and I'm afraid they won't make a lot of money." ”

Liu Ximing smiled and answered, "Yang Gong misunderstood, I don't want to sell goods, I want to buy land, there is a bay eighty miles southeast of Yazhou, which is suitable for building a port, and I want to buy all the nearby land." ”

"Buying land?" , Yang Yipeng shook his head and looked at Liu Ximing with strange eyes.

"There are no people there, what's the use of you buying it, if it's to sell goods, you should naturally look for those densely populated places."

"Don't hide it from Yang Gong, now the Zheng family in the South China Sea is dominant, and pirates are rampant, and the businessman's Litai has to pay him and so on, Liu is a minister of the court, how can he accept such idleness, so he wants to find a place to build a harbor for others."

"Uh", Yang Yipeng put down his wine glass and said seriously: "It's not difficult to buy land, it's wasteland over there, what if you sell it all, but you have to be careful about building a port, the eldest husband can stretch and bend in the world, and you must not be too strong, cough cough." ”

Liu Ximing smiled in his heart, my plan is more than that.

Seeing that Yang Yipeng was coughing badly, he hurriedly helped him massage his back, "Yang Gong's face is sallow, but he is seriously ill?" ”

"It's not a big deal if the water and soil are not adaptable", Yang Yipeng coughed for a while before he eased up, and still insisted on it.

Liu Ximing thought about it, although Yang Yipeng only had a few relationships with him, he had already helped himself a lot, thinking of this, he pretended to take out a bottle of spiritual water from his arms and handed it over.

"The younger generation has a medicine, which can replenish the middle qi and smooth the qi and blood, which may be useful to Yang Gong, so don't hesitate to try it back."

"Okay, the new Amber has accepted it, forget it, don't talk about anything else today, let's drink it again."

With Yang Yipeng's support, the Liu family's affairs in Yazhou suddenly became extremely smooth.

Nearly 100,000 acres of wasteland near the base of the Fubo Division were symbolically bought by Liu Ximing for 3,000 taels of silver, but unfortunately the population of Yazhou was already sparse, otherwise he planned to recruit some people to work at the base.

Three days later, Liu Ximing and his entourage returned to Jinmujiao again.

In the past few days, 10,000 soldiers of the Fubo Division have gone into battle together, and they have taken the lead in leveling a piece of land with a size of 100 acres, and have completed the construction of a simple camp and a simple wharf.

However, as soon as Liu Ximing came back, he immediately stopped the work here, and ordered the soldiers of Fubo Division to rest for two days, he still had important things to do.

On the tenth day of the first month of January, the rest of the Liu family drove the fleet again and headed straight to the west.

Liu Ximing's target is Annanguo.

At present, the sea route to Japan and Korea is controlled by the Zheng family, and the direction of the South Seas also belongs to the extension of his family's sphere of influence, and only the southeast peninsula is barely a pure land.

Annam has not yet been unified, although the Later Li Dynasty controlled most of the land, but there is still a Mo Dynasty centered on Gaoping in the north.

Moreover, the interior of the Later Lê Dynasty was also not stable, the Zheng clan controlled the center, with Thang Long as the capital, the Nguyen clan controlled Quang Nam, with Hue as the center, and the Wu clan in the north who had occupied the Tuyen Quang region for a long time, which can be described as a mess.

However, it is precisely because of this situation that Liu Ximing feels that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Hu Jianzheng's family can't move it, can't you still move your Annan Zheng family.

Annan is only three or four hundred kilometers away from Hainan, but it still took three days for the Liu family fleet to reach the mouth of the Red River, after all, they are not familiar with the hydrological conditions here, and they are very cautious all the way upstream.

It's just that when they arrived near the mouth of the Red River Delta, Liu Ximing and his entourage were a little dumbfounded.

There are no port cities in this damn Annam!

There are many fishing villages along the way, but what does the fishing village have to do with the Liu family, do you go to buy fish?

At this time, the Red River Delta was indeed the richest region in Vietnam.

But......

Basically all the densely populated big cities are concentrated in the delta, and several of the later well-known port cities along the coast of Vietnam, such as Haiphong, are not developed at all.

At present, the so-called port cities of Annam, such as Thang Long and Yuxian, are all distributed on both sides of the Red River, and they are not even eight poles away from the coastline.

In the vast sea, more than 10,000 people looked at the mouth of the Red River, which rushed from land into the sea, and was a little dazed.

The draft of these battleships of Sun Wu was at least 5 or 6 meters deep, and Liu Ximing did not know whether he could sail into the Red River and go north all the way to the north.

If the Red River is not deep enough to run aground, he and the others will only become turtles in the urn.

However, if he only sent Shunqingfu and other bird boats and cruisers into the river, he was afraid that he would suffer a big loss if he was not familiar with geography.

There were quite a few merchant ships coming and going at the mouth of the Red River, and when they saw the huge ships of the Liu family's fleet, they were all frightened and avoided from afar.

"Second brother, what should I do?"

You Degao looked at Liu Ximing with a confused expression.

"Fuck", Liu Ximing, who had just turned to the international style, roared in English.

What can I do, do we want to intercept the Red River Estuary and force Annan's Zheng family to buy our goods, but Annan doesn't rely on sea transportation for a living.

Liu Ximing suddenly felt a little desperate.

I really didn't think about going to sea this time, but I just thought that the predecessors of the traverser could kill all sides and make tens of millions of profits from overseas trade, but I didn't expect that there were so many doorways inside.

O iniquity!

The huge fleet was so confused that it soaked in the Beibu Gulf for more than an hour, and seeing that he really couldn't think of a way, Liu Ximing could only come up with an idea first.

"Turn to the south, let's go to Hue and go to the Nguyen family in the south."

Unlike northern Vietnam, where the capital was built away from the coastline, Liu Ximing remembered that Hue, the capital of the Nguyen family, was now not far from the coastline, and his own warships could be used there.

The mighty fleet once again drew a white trail on the sea, heading south along the coastline.

In just two days, the Liu family's fleet appeared in the front fortress built by the Ruan family along Hengshan.

Unlike the Zheng family's ignorance of the Liu family's fleet, the Rili Fortress built by the Ruan family on the front line of Quang Tri reached the coastline, and this unknown fleet was discovered at the first time.

The commander in the Rili Fortress originally heard the report from his subordinates, and planned to send a warship to intercept it, but who knew that when he saw it at the beach, he was so frightened that all the people retreated into the city and did not dare to raise the matter of standing again.

Although people had been sent to Hue to report the news, the people in Nguyen Gi Ri Li's fortress were full of fear and sadness.

The fleet came from the northern coast, and it must have been the reinforcements that the Zheng family had invited from Hongmaofan in order to attack the Ruan family.

With the existence of such a god-like warship, it seems that the Ruan family will not be able to save it this time.

The battleship was fast enough, but it was still not as fast as the fast horse.

At the same time that the fast horse sent to Hue by the commander of the Nguyen Thi Rili Fortress galloped into the royal city of Hue, he was already thinking about whether to wait for the arrival of the Zheng family's soldiers and horses to surrender directly.

At this time, Hue was also in a panic, and in the rich inner city, the officials and generals who had been summoned were all panicked.

At this time, the Nguyen Dynasty was ruled by Nguyen Phuc Lan, who was only 35 years old this year, and was not as sharp as the average Vietnamese, black and thin, but somewhat similar to the Chinese.

He was wearing the same as that worn by the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, except for the local characteristics of Annan with slightly shorter clothes and exaggerated hats.

"Lord, the news came from the sun, the Zheng family and Hongmaoyi sent more than forty warships south, according to the defenders, their ships are towering into the sky, and their cannons are as many as carps crossing the river."

Ruan Fulan's face was already a little pale at this time, and he almost fainted directly when he heard this.

"Do you have a high opinion? By the way, uncle, where is the fleet of the Franciscans, hurry up and ask them to come and help in the war. ”

As if grasping a life-saving straw, Ruan Fulan yelled at his uncle Ruan Phuc Xi, who was a minister of care.

Ruan Fuxi had just helped Ruan Fulan to quell Ruan Fuxi's rebellion, and this was the time to be favored, but he was a clan relative who came from Ruan Huang Dynasty, and he was still a little calm.

"Lord, there must be no panic at this moment, the top priority is to quickly gather the guards around Hue, and at the same time send a report to the coastal towns to alert, and then send a scout horse to investigate the coast, once there is news, immediately report, the Franji people will go to invite the ministers to help in the war."

Seeing that Ruan Fuxi calmly assigned tasks, Ruan Fulan gradually settled down, "Yes, yes, yes, as my uncle said, hurry up and prepare for war." ”

"My Ruan family has been in Quang Nam for many years, and the Zheng family has failed to attack Quang Nam several times, and this time it must be a vain attack."

"The Lord is wise", and the ministers of the Ruan family also followed to stabilize their minds.