Da Zhou Longdao for eight years

Republic 1791

A large ship travels from south to north on an offshore route close to the coast.

This lucky ship does not look like a merchant ship, the draft is relatively shallow, and the decoration is very ornate, which is somewhat out of touch with the sea like the dark forest of this era.

In fact, Zhang Zong also asked this question when he got on the ship, and the captain's answer was: they will sail with the Wen family's ship.

The Wen family has a very close relationship with the north, the crown princess in the north is the daughter of the Wen family, and the Wen family married the princess of the north, so the Wen family is actively protected by all the sea lords at sea.

"Before the Chinese New Year last year, the Li family was in charge of seven sea owners, and more than 30 small sea owners served the officials in the north."

The captain said to Zhang Zong:

"The Zhao'an ceremony held in the newly opened port of the island city port in the north, tsk, tsk, almost 2,000 ships, large and small, covered the sea, that scene is really ......."

Since then, the history of the Li family in Shuangyu Port as a semi-independent force has officially ended, Li Feilong and Li Feihu were awarded the rank of rear admiral by the Chinese Empire, and the rest of the cabinets that accepted Zhao'an, Li Feihuang, who has always supported Huaxia, and Li Feifeng, who has a strong force, have obtained the rank of colonel, and the rest are lieutenant colonel or major ranks, and the small cabinets have been awarded the rank of lieutenant officer.

The imperial government immediately consolidated and rectified the pirates in Shuangyu Port, and the medium-sized Fuchuan and Canton ships, which were in better condition and most suitable, entered the port to be renovated and prepared to be rebuilt into gunboats.

The Daihoku and Canton ships, which have the largest capacity but are somewhat inconvenient to move, were converted into transport ships.

The rest of the small ships, except for some of the ones that are in good condition as sundries, are all refurbished and sold to the private sector.

As a result, the strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy on paper has expanded rapidly, and the entire East Asian sea has become much quieter because of the Li family's acceptance of Zhao'an.

It's not that there are no pirates, there are still small groups of pirates, but under the power of the Imperial Navy, the pirates who dare to fight the idea of the Wen family's fleet really don't exist.

Even the annoying pirates did not dare to appear on the surface of the Empire-controlled sea.

When Zhang Zong heard this explanation, he felt more and more that the burden of his trip to the north was very heavy.

His family is a big family in the south of the Yangtze River, a wealthy gentry for generations, and there are many children in the family who are officials in the imperial court, and there are many high-ranking officials at the level of Zaizhi.

He himself is one of the leaders of the young people in the Jiangnan Shilin, who is good at miscellaneous learning, and has a deep attainment in pure entertainment such as gold and stone, antiques, opera, calligraphy and painting, as well as Fengyue and food.

However, now this Fengliu scholar also has to find a way to find a future for the family.

Last year, the king of Qi in the north officially broke away from the Great Zhou and established the Chinese Empire.

From this country name alone, Zhang Zong could see the strong enterprising spirit of the emerging country in the north - it is difficult to say anything else, and the current situation of the coexistence of the north and the south will definitely not be in line with the wishes of the northern court.

The Zhang family has been an official for generations, and Zhang Zong himself is one of the leaders of Shilin, so he can't be said to be clear about the shortcomings of the Great Zhou Dynasty, at least he sees it very thoroughly.

To be precise, the Great Zhou court has reached a dangerous .......

If it was Hu Lu who threatened the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty, such as the Jurchen or Mengwu ten years ago, Zhang Zong felt that there was nothing to consider.

But Jiangbei is not a Tartar, on the contrary, it is to drive the Tartars out of the Central Plains and maintain the orthodox dynasty of China.

Today's Jiangnan Shilin's attitude towards the Chinese Empire is clearly divided into two groups:

One of them is a pro-China faction, they feel that the expulsion of the Tartars from the north and the maintenance of Chinese orthodoxy, even if the saints are alive, they have to praise: "Micro Huaxia, I have been sent to the left".

However, the other faction felt that the north side was greatly prosperous, suppressed the Sage Avenue, and greatly compressed the eight strands and poems in the scientific expedition to the point that they were not even as good as the number of arts, not to mention that the north also quarreled with the family of the Holy Father, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like there is any respect for the Sage Avenue.

This is exactly what is better than being a Tartar, although it is not a Tartar.

The Zhang family itself does not evaluate the two factions, and the gentry are to the point where the Zhang family is in this situation, and this kind of dispute actually means little to them.

Zhang Zong's trip to the north this time is to see with his own eyes what kind of country the north is.

What will the new imperial court in the north think of the Zhang family, a family of officials and gentry who have been educated for generations.

This will determine the future direction of the Zhang family, no matter how Zhang Zong behaves, he still has to be careful when such a big burden of the entire family is pressed.

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Zhang Zong's ship rendezvoused with the Wen family's fleet north of Lin'an, not far from the port of Shuangyu.

He stood at the bow of the ship and looked at it, which was a group of more than a dozen large ships that were more ornate than his own.

In addition, there are some other boats following, which seem to be the same as their own, wanting to borrow the east wind of the Wen family to go north safely.

It didn't take long for the fleet to come out of the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou Naval Division, and six pirate ships flying the black flag of the Li family sandwiched the entire fleet in the middle.

However, the entire fleet did not show any panic at all, and the pirate ships did not mean to approach, always sailing on both sides of the fleet, looking more like escorts.

Zhang Zong asked the captain of the ship again, and then learned that the main passengers of the Wen family's fleet were Wen Xianggong's youngest son, Wen Ji and his wife, who returned to Jiangbei Province this year.

Wen Ji's wife is the daughter of the Xu family, the princess of the real brand, the Li family has now recruited An, and some ships have no time to change their flags, but it doesn't matter, the princess's ship went north to the province, and it was also their proper intention to come out to escort.

"It turned out to be Wen Ji." Zhang Zong smiled.

Because of his fun, he has a good relationship with Wen Ji, although he has never met Wen Ji's wife, but he has also heard the story of the Xu family's daughter.

It is said that Wen Ji's biological mother, the third lady of Wen Xianggong, was originally very opposed to this family business, because when Xu Shimei married into the Wen family, the Xu family was just the owner of a dock fort in Jiangbei District.

In addition, Xu Shimei likes to dance with knives and guns, which seems to have nothing to do with everyone's girlfriends, and is more like a wild girl from a poor place, so the new daughter-in-law of the Wen family is especially not treated by the old lady.

However, the situation became very fast, and the wild girl of the Dock Fort Lord's family was soon upgraded to the daughter of the Jiedu envoy's family, and the old lady immediately stopped saying anything.

When the daughter of the Jiedu envoy was upgraded to the county lord of the prince's family, the old lady began to praise her daughter-in-law for how filial she was and how generous her demeanor was, and she was the daughter of a wealthy family at a ......glance.

Now, the county lord of the prince's family has been upgraded to the princess of the emperor's family.......

A few days ago, Zhang Zong and his friends also asked Wen Ji with a smile what kind of wonderful person his wife, who had been upgraded from a wild girl, would become in the mouth of Mrs. Wen.

To be honest, this is not very polite, but Wen Ji is not annoyed, his family knows his own affairs, and he knows that his biological mother is just a concubine, and he can't compare with Wen Zhong's mother in any aspect.

But for the sake of him and his wife's face, everyone just regarded this matter as some kind of anecdote, and no one dared to really laugh at the old lady.