Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Giants of the East China Sea

Qujiang Wharf!

Gongsun You arrived at the Liang family's painting boat.

The scale of the Liangjia painting boat is very large, the ship is two stories high, the bow deck and the port side and starboard side are equipped with battlements, and the wood is the most resistant to water and wind, which is obviously improved by the warship.

A person who can use an improved warship as a private boat, the strength of the Liang family is indeed not to be underestimated.

Gongsun meditated on the news he had heard these days, held his head high, and walked up to the painting boat step by step.

She was born handsome and beautiful, but at this moment, she stepped onto the painting boat step by step, single-handedly, with one person and one sword, but she looked majestic.

Seeing that she was a woman with such courage, the people in the surrounding rivers and lakes were all in awe, and said in unison: "Welcome to the leader of the Gongsun League!" ”

Gongsun You nodded slightly, and said, "What about Gong Liang, you invited me to come, but you didn't dare to show up?" ”

As soon as her voice fell, the people around her felt embarrassed.

On his side, he wants to give the other party a dismount, so that the other party knows that it is not the truth that the raptors are not the same.

Where did I think that the other party actually came with only one person, and it was a woman.

A group of big men and women demonstrated to a woman, but they told each other that they were cowering and didn't dare to meet.

It is clear which is stronger and which is weak.

Liang Hao, who is known as Haidong Taishan, also had no face to continue to stay, and came out and said: "The leader of the Gongsun League has lost his welcome, he is old, his body is not as good as before, and he is sleepy. This came from afar, the boat was bumpy all the way, and I was careless, and I squinted for a while. Don't blame the leader of the Gongsun Alliance, please come in. ”

Gongsun humorously entered the house silently and came to the second floor of the painting boat.

There is a large room on the second floor of the painting boat, with windows on three sides and a wall on one side.

There are more than ten guards standing guard around it.

"I can't imagine that in just a few years, the leader of the Qingyu League who is famous in Chang'an is so young, but he is really young, and it is really the back wave pushing the front wave! Looking at the leader of the Gongsun League, the old man had a feeling that he was old and useless. ”

Liang Hao invited Gongsun You to sit down, and said with emotion at the top.

Gongsun You smiled slightly: "Liang Gong said that he laughed, as a good person who controls the sea area of thousands of miles, who dares to say that you are old?" ”

Liang Hao's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, and he shook his head and said, "It's really terrifying, it's terrifying!" Then come to think of it, the alliance leader should know the real purpose of the old man looking for you? ”

Gongsun You nodded.

Liang Hao's rise is based on the prestige of the world's first heroic bearded guest back then, and the bearded guest had a high status in the green forest, and he could almost compete in the world.

It was for various reasons that he gave up the battle for the world and went overseas.

The bearded guest is king in the overseas islands, the environment of the overseas islands is harsh, and the living conditions of the islanders are extremely poor, and they need to transport materials from the Central Plains to improve their reputation.

Therefore, the Liang family also took advantage of the prestige of the bearded guests to gather shipwrights and men in the East China Sea to make huge profits from sea smuggling.

In the years when the Liang family was in turmoil in the world, it can be said that they made a lot of money.

Later, when the world was peaceful, the overseas islands gradually became self-sufficient, and the bearded guests also disappeared due to their old age.

The Liang family gradually severed ties with the overseas islands.

They have established a foundation, successfully laundered their name, and monopolized the waterway transportation industry in the East China Sea.

Waterway transportation is particularly important for Datang.

Because when Yang Guang built the Sui-Tang Grand Canal, he was in a hurry to complete the construction, and many places did not meet the freight standards, especially the crucial Yongji Canal.

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty was not yet established, it was already blocked.

Over the past 100 years, the Tang Dynasty has carried out arduous dredging, repair and excavation of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties: four dredging canals, five dredging Shanyang, three dredging of the Jiangnan Canal, two chiseling of the Danba waterway, three treatment of the Bao slope, dredging the old waterway of the Jialing River, with a hundred years of work, to maintain the smooth flow of the Grand Canal.

Therefore, later generations attributed everything to Yang Guang, believing that Yang Guang had benefited the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, which was really a big joke in the world.

Moreover, the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties strengthened the north-south traffic, but it was not the main economic waterway of the Tang Dynasty.

The most important shipping route in the Tang Dynasty was sea transportation!

Although the Sui-Tang Grand Canal is convenient, it has the disadvantage of being often blocked and unable to go directly to large ships.

The cargo capacity of sea ships is several times that of ordinary cargo ships, and the materials are transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the East China Sea by sea ships, with the East China Sea as a transit station, and the goods are transported from the East China Sea along the Yellow River to Luoyang and Chang'an.

There are a lot of business opportunities here, slender men, boatmen, and men, and this series of big projects are all arranged and controlled by the Liang family.

It can even be said politely that as long as the Liang family strikes, the transit of East China Sea commerce and trade will be slack, affecting the supply demand of Chang'an and Luoyang.

Gongsun You's statement that the Liang family "controls thousands of miles of sea" is an exaggeration, but it may not be entirely true.

In the early years, if Haidong's officials wanted to make good political achievements, and if they wanted to be promoted, they had to first befriend the Liang family.

Half of Haidong's economy depends on sea transportation. Only by ensuring the smooth flow of shipping can we achieve good results.

Because of this, the Liang family is in Haidong's generation of black and white, and their strength is extremely strong.

Liang Hao saw Gongsun You nodding, and he also sighed helplessly and said: "This time is different from the past, this short-bladed wealth is like killing parents, the old man is cheeky, I hope that the leader of the Gongsun Alliance will raise his noble hand." ”

The Liang family has been beautiful for nearly a hundred years, and today, it can be regarded as the top seal.

Mount Tai in the East China Sea can no longer rise.

It is impossible for the imperial court to do things forever, and a wealthy giant like the Liang family will exist forever.

Just like Zheng Fengchi, the richest man in Chang'an, it was because he was too rich that Li Yuan was tricked.

Shen Wansan, the richest businessman in the world in later generations, was also the same, so Zhu Yuanzhang copied his home.

The Liang family has received the news and has a plan to retreat bravely.

No longer controlling the slender man, the boatman, the man, but the change of career to the transportation industry, in order to protect himself.

Liang Hao discussed with the staff group and divided the manpower in his hands into two parts, one part of which was still based on water transportation, and the other part was developed for land transportation.

Water transport is relatively safe and not very profitable. Now they are no longer a monopoly, and they can't sustain their brothers' food!

Land transportation is a real profiteering, in ancient times, even if the world is peaceful, there will be idle thieves, which is unavoidable.

The cause of the problem also appears here, which is actually closely related to Pei Min.

At the beginning, Pei Min made the SF Dart Game, but this model did not allow Mu Cong and Mu Ling to develop.

But Gongsun You saw the clues, he felt that the real reason why the people in the rivers and lakes violated the ban with martial arts was that most of the people in the rivers and lakes did not produce and were idle.

Rely on fighting in exchange for fame, and with fame, you can maintain your life.

As long as the people in the rivers and lakes can be organized, given things to do, and a management system can be formed, all kinds of problems will be avoided.

Under the planning of Gongsun You, the Qingyu League gradually had a system, acting as a guard for the dart bureau and businessmen, and contributing people.

The Qingyu League has also become bigger because of this......

The strength of the Qingyu League is dominated by Chang'an and Luoyang, and Chang'an Luoyang is the economic center of Datang.

The land transportation developed by Liang Hao is the line of Chang'an and Luoyang.

The provocation of the Liang family is not a simple matter of men and women, but a real struggle of interests.