The Shanhaimeng stores manipulated by Jia Cong behind the scenes have now opened up the Lingnan channel, and the Shanhaimeng's stores are distributed in Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Guangzhou.

Therefore, Jia Cong went to the five southeastern provinces to supervise the divisions, train the navy, and promote the prestige of the country, which involved the terrifying profit of the sea trade, so many princes, nobles, dignitaries and nobles almost did not hesitate, and secretly agreed to send representatives to take a piece of the pie.

Of course, this tacit cooperation is sneaky and unsightly...... No one will put it on the surface......

Up to a hundred times the profit, even if it is a "decent gentleman", who doesn't want to engage in a little?

There is a famous person in modern times who once said: Politics is like a woman who sells herself, everyone wants to do it.

Well...... Although even if even ...... This sentence is too dark and too extreme, but if you think about it carefully, it really makes a fucking sense!

……

At the Jiangdu Wharf in Yangzhou, Jia Cong, the governor of the five provinces, who was full of food and drink, arched his hands on the deck and said goodbye to his old friends.

Shen Sanguan respectfully reminded: "My lord, the grass people heard that Lingnan Zhangqi is serious and the climate is hot, so they are hereby equipped with a few Langzhong, and I hope that the adults will prevent water and soil adaptation and Zhangqi, and recuperate more." ”

His son Shen Dechen is studying in Guozijian, and this year's township examination and Enke examination have entrusted Jia Cong's relationship, and this rich man is naturally dedicated.

In addition, there are Yangzhou salt merchant Gui Buyan and Zhejiang merchant Zheng Yexiao, they are all very concerned about Jia Cong, people on one front.

Zhejiang businessman Zheng Yexiao also had to follow Jia Cong to Lingnan to do business, and drove the ship behind Jia Cong's warship, which was a lot of convenience.

Yangzhou Salt Patrol Imperial Shi Jia Siwen is not good to send Jia Cong in public, this benevolent brother is so jealous of the sea trade that his intestines are green, because the officialdom is flattering on both sides, that is, playing with fire, and only two sides are not pleasing as a result.

Like Jia Cong, standing in the Shanhai League and the eunuchs, they don't change their camps, and for others, they just fight.

Before parting, Second Sister You and Third Sister You, who came to see them off publicly, had slightly gloomy faces, and they always gathered less and left more.

When the boat drove away, all the way south, the green mountains on both sides of the strait seemed to be constantly retreating, and Jia Cong couldn't help but think of Miaoyu and Xing Xiuyan in Suzhou.

Although he is also supervising in Jiangsu, he has not seen him for a short time.

On the other hand, after today's struggle, isn't it just for the sake of peace and happiness in the coming day?

In this way, Jia Cong felt much better.

"Boss Zheng, do you have a Jiangnan tannery in Wenzhou?" Jia Cong asked solemnly.

Zheng Yeyu also became serious: "My lord, there are some who specialize in the production of leather boots." ”

"Is the owner of Jiangnan Leather Factory surnamed Huang?"

"This ...... There seems to be someone surnamed Huang, but I haven't heard that it's from Jiangnan Leather Factory. ”

"Does the owner of Jiangnan Tannery have a sister-in-law?" Jia Cong said enviously.

Zheng Yexiao's eyes were strange: "......"

Rubbed his belly...... Why are adults so keen on their sister-in-law? It can't be someone's sister-in-law, right? This fetish ......

At this time, the Yangtze River is down from the Jiangdu, the boat travels for a few days, there is a section of the river is being dredged, and now in the first year of Hongde, the river management in the lower river area of Huai'anli in Jiangbei has been quite improved.

said that in the past few days, Zhong Yin, a sailor from Huai'an, met several brothers from the Cao Gang and had a very happy conversation.

Jia Cong was suspicious, he had done too many bad things, and he couldn't help but be suspicious, he knew that the Cao Gang had a lot of manpower, which was drawn from the remaining personnel in the barracks to fill it...... And the infiltration of the White Lotus Sect is not only in the canal for thousands of miles, but also in the barracks!

The bird faded out on the boat, and on this day I went ashore to the small town of Guazhou to eat, drink and have fun.

As soon as he returned to the shore and saw the Cao Gang brothers, Zhong Yin was cordially trying to step forward to greet him, Long Aotian suddenly grabbed him, looked left and right at the water and grass on the shore, and shouted: "Protect your lord!" ”

The pacesetters surrounded Jia Cong in the middle, Jia Cong was shocked, and cursed in his heart, is this Yangzhou area compatible with my fate? Why are you so scared every time you come over?

Rumble!

Sure enough, a group of Cao gang members immediately changed their faces, swords, guns, swords, halberds, maces, and thistles greeted one after another, and at the same time, several figures also jumped out of the water, and their skills were excellent.

This time, Jia Cong is not afraid, does science know? One hundred of our pacesetters have flintlock pistols!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ai Shuangshuang and Long Aotian led a hundred pacesetters who had been trained, and the weather disturbance of the flintlock pistol was greatly reduced, and each officer and soldier carried a lead bag and gunpowder, and after shooting in the front, the rear was immediately filled!

This kind of intensive attack, no matter how high your martial arts are, you can't get close! Unless it's ...... The aura of heaven and earth is revived, and the nuclear bomb is not afraid to say......

……

In less than a quarter of an hour, all but those killed by ammunition were arrested.

On the other side of the dock, the pacesetters, who had no casualties, surrounded the woman in black, pressing the fingers of their right hands on the trigger.

The woman in black lowered her sword through gritted teeth.

……

Because he was equipped with firearms, Jia Cong didn't bring Liu Xianglian or Jia Yun this time.

The air was dull and there was a faint musty smell in the bottom of the ship, and a few rats were scurrying around.

Jia Cong, who was sitting on the seat with a golden sword, looked around this White Lotus Sect woman who was tied up by five flowers, not to mention...... The figure is really good, a girl who knows martial arts, and she is full of wildness.

"I said, little girl, why don't you study so hard and learn to rebel?"

Jia Cong lifted the chin of the woman in black, she was not ugly, her facial features were exquisite, and unlike the boudoir women he had played, this woman had more bodybuilding...... There is also anger: "Since I have fallen into the hands of thieves today, I want to kill or chop, listen to it!" Needless to say! ”

"Oops! Girl, don't be so angry...... Who sent you? ”

"Oppress a good dog official, everyone will be punished, why do you need others to send me?"

"No, this official admits that I do have a lot of enemies, but I and you White Lotus Sect have always been well water and not river water...... Where have I oppressed you? ”

"Hmph......" The woman in black snorted coldly, and a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, so she shrank her feet.

After asking for a long time, he couldn't find anything practical, so Jia Cong ordered him to continue to be detained and tortured.

Back in the living room of the warship, Long Aotian and Sun Fu also said that the others couldn't ask anything, and they were very angry, and there was even no shortage of suicides by taking poison.

Until Jinling, it was still like this, Jia Cong could only order: continue to be detained and tortured.

He still has a lot of tricks to do.

……

Stopping outside the Zhonghua Gate in Jinling, Jia Cong's thoughts were ethereal.

Backed by the Yangtze River, there is Qingliang Mountain in the west, and there is Purple Mountain in the east...... But maybe two hundred years later, a certain island country will still be able to break through Songjiang and Suzhou and slaughter 300,000 of our compatriots......

Jia Cong also thought that in the early 21 st century, the great Chinese female writer Ms. Zhang Chunru did not hesitate to take risks alone, and with her strong will and ironclad evidence, she exposed to the world the inhumane atrocities of a certain island nation, called "Nanjing Atrocities".

This book shocked the entire Western world and ranked on the best-selling list in the United States.

However, Zhang Chunru was naturally threatened and assassinated by radicals in the island country...... At the age of thirty-six, he committed suicide by drinking bullets......

Now, Tokugawa's turtle son is still in seclusion, right?

After the Meiji Restoration, this nation will be very terrible!

At that time, only Li Hongzhang understood best.

When my Dashun navy is strong, it will inevitably open the door of the Japanese country!

Jia Cong's eyes were firm.

The nineteenth century will be a great change in the world, and he can't wait.

But in the eighteenth century, he was more than capable of laying a good foundation, as he said to Jasven: make an opening.

The people of insight and the gentry in feudal society, they are not unaware of the benefits of science and firearms, some people really see it clearly, even better than modern people!

But they didn't dare to do it!

Why?

There is a politician and historian in the Republic of China who said very clearly: Because once science is changed and developed, the scholars of the national imperial examination system will lose their jobs!

At that time, the pressure to face was: hundreds of Hanlin! Thousands of jinshi! Tens of thousands! Hundreds of thousands of talents! Millions of children!

This is a person who fights the world alone!

Who dares?!

The emperor did not dare.

Therefore, Shang Ying, who changed the law, died, and Wang Mang, Wang Anshi, Kang Youwei, and Liang Qichao all failed without exception.

If you want to smash their jobs, don't the national scholars work hard?

Therefore, Jia Cong could only compromise at this time: he did not dare to destroy the statue of Confucius, nor did he dare to propose the abolition of the imperial examination, but chose a path of feudal assets.

There's only so much he can do.

The germination of capitalism since the Ming Dynasty has not been stifled in Dashun, which is a good premise.

……

In Jinling, Jia Cong didn't stay long, and even just went back to Stone Town to sleep with Mandarin Ducks for one night, and didn't see Qin Keqing and Wang Xifeng.

However, Zhou Wenbai, the son of Zhenhai Zhou, Wei Ruolan, the son of Wei Dingguo, the governor of Jiangsu, and Zheng Ren, the son of Zheng Sancai, the king of Nan'an County, got on the thief ship, and they all got their father's consent, and Jia Cong tied them to a thief ship from then on.

If you go up, you can't get down!

Of course, Jia Cong didn't expect them to charge into battle, relying on this class of rich second generation and second generation of officials to fight, forget it......

They are going to engage in maritime trade, and what Jia Cong wants is to tie some nobles to his camp...... Until one day, they will find that they can no longer live without themselves, and then he will succeed.

Then take Lingnan.

Guangdong was still regarded as a "land of foreign transformation" in the Tang Dynasty, and only slowly rose later, but the economy was uneven, and the most developed area was Guangzhou.

The terrain here is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, similar to that of the United Kingdom.

Nanling is the largest barrier in Guangdong, but also the most precipitous place, Taizu's seven laws of the "Long March" "Wuling soaring waves, Wumeng majestic walking mud pills", "Wuling" refers to the five mountains of Nanling.

When we entered Guangdong, the heat of the climate was obvious, and many officers and soldiers fell ill because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, but fortunately, there were military doctors and no one died.

Ding Qisheng, the governor of Liangguang, was originally in Zhaoqing, but when the Portuguese governor of Macao, Coelho, asked to meet with this "great and legendary governor of the five provinces", Qin chose Guangzhou when he was there.

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Guangdong Cheng Xuan Political Envoy Division, Guangzhou Mansion.

Ding Qisheng took the lead, and the officials in Guangzhou respectfully greeted Jia Cong, a scholar of Renhuadian University and the governor of the five provinces of Qincha.

I saw Jia Cong get off a sedan chair, arching his hands sleepily, looking tired, no way, Guangdong is really hot!

The people were far away from the periphery discussing "this Chin Cha is a demon and a god-killer" or something......

The pacesetters guarded outside the door, and the soldiers followed Jia Cong, entered the hall of the Qincha Yamen in the center of the city, and worshiped the holy decree according to Chinese etiquette, and Jia Cong sat on the main seat without concession.

The Chinese side is on one side and the Portuguese side is on the other.

After the two sides exchanged pleasantries according to different etiquette, Zhou Wenbai, who spoke Chinese outside the meeting, acted as Jia Qing's general officer, that is, Jia Qing's interpreter.

The translator of the Portuguese viceroy Coelho was called Christopher, who was also a priest.

"My lord, the name of the Portuguese governor is Coelho, which means rabbit in Portuguese. The priest's name is Christopher, which means messenger of God......" Zhou Wenbai said softly.

"Coelho? Rabbit? Jia Cong was stunned, he didn't know much Portuguese bird language...... "The name of this Portuguese governor is really unique and ambitious...... Rabbits are a noble and ever-growing profession......"

"Poof!" Ding Qisheng couldn't help laughing, and coughed dryly: "This official has occasionally felt a cold recently......"

Father Christopher, who had studied Chinese, told Coelho, whose face was a little gloomy and ashamed, and laughed at the end, Christopher smiled and said: "Our governor thanks you for your praise, and may the gospel of God come to him." ”

"Teachable!" Jia Cong nodded condescendingly: "When the Portuguese side first arrived, they came to meet me, I don't know what happened?" ”

Christopher complacently handed over the Bible, Ptolemy's astronomy, and so on, all translated into Chinese.

In fact, this is the usual method of Western missionary treatment of China for a hundred years: hoping to use science to suppress China psychologically.

"Honorable Overseer, on behalf of the Society of Jesus, I would like to have some exchanges with you in literature, mathematics, science, and astronomy." Christopher said proudly.

In addition to the Jesuits, there were Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, etc., all of which had their own differences and differences, but the methods for China were similar.

The book reached Jia Cong's hands.

Jia Cong sneered in his heart, Portugal will not be so kind!

Their sinister intentions, Jia Cong saw through it from the beginning!

Because the armed invasion was unsuccessful, Portugal spread the doctrine, in fact, it was preaching, adopting the method of "cultural invasion", which convinced many Chinese ideologically and culturally!

This is definitely not kindness!

After the cultural invasion, it is the invasion of capital! Squeeze profits and cheap labor!

The so-called proselytization is just a very effective and despicable method practiced in the process of colonization!

Of course, science Jia Cong wants it, the church, forget it......

"I have only a little interest in the so-called science of your country, in fact, your country is not so strange to our country, and your country should know that our skilled craftsmen are not inferior to you......"

"I also know that your two countries have been merged because of the royal marriage between Portugal and Spain. Your invincible Charles V was also stunned by the shock, but the vicissitudes of life are no longer what they used to be, and Philip II once forced the Netherlands to rise up! ”

"The southern part of the Netherlands became Belgium, and the Netherlands of the Netherlands is now what you fear!"

"I believe that Governor Van Dijk of the Penghu Islands gave Portugal an answer with bloody facts!"

"Then again, this official is not only interested in Lisbon, but also in Madrid, Cassiti, and Aragon!"

Jia Cong raised his head proudly.

Christopher's face changed drastically, and he said to the Governor, "I can't believe that this Master Overseer knows so much about our country, and yet is so arrogant!" Your Excellency the Governor, this is not good for us! ”

Coelho's face is not good-looking, this is the "legendary evil governor" in the Far Eastern countries? Coelho's face flushed like a rabbit.

Zhou Wenbai and Ding Qisheng were also shocked, they didn't expect the superintendent Jia Cong to be so powerful!