In fact, the seizure of this batch of goods by the Zhangzhou Government is not because of who you can't get along with, but because the wind is too tight now, and everyone is in danger.

The Zhangzhou government could not afford to allow such a large number of goods to be smuggled from its own state, so it detained these goods.

As a result, seeing Changlin's master, he came to visit with Changlin's secret letter, and Zhangzhou Mansion immediately let him go.

It turned out that the person involved in this business was the governor Changlin, blocking Changlin's goods, isn't that looking for death, and he thinks that Kuilun's knife was not added to his neck?

Wei Lianli is also very good at being a person, and after following his master to bring the goods out of Zhangzhou Mansion, he immediately licked his face and saluted these parents and officials, and at this time, the officials finally dared to collect money.

In the following months, such things happened from time to time, but Wei Lianli rarely needed Changlin to come out in person, he had already established his own network, if the ship was detained in Changtai, he didn't need Changlin's appearance, and it was solved directly through the relationship of Zhangzhou Mansion.

So his business road is getting smoother and smoother, occasionally the officers and soldiers of Xuntang are dissatisfied with the number of "customs clearance fees", there are local officials to come forward, Wei Lianli weaves a solid umbrella, of course, this is related to his own ability, but also related to the capital in his hands, if there is no strong capital strength, the advantage of other people can only make a living in Qinglou, if there is sufficient capital, he can weave a power umbrella.

With the smooth trade road, Wei Lianli transferred the backbone of Lian Li Bank from Guangzhou, set up warehouses in various towns along the river, accepted upstream goods, and packaged them in accordance with the unified specifications of Guangzhou exports, and finally sold them in Xiamen.

The transportation is smooth, but the goods are insufficient, after all, the Fujian tea production area is mainly in the north, through the Minjiang River basin is easier to reach, from the Jiulong River or the Jinjiang River upstream, the road is too far, the freight is not an obstacle, the cost of opening up the joints along the way, but let this deal have no money.

Wei Lianli gritted his teeth and simply opened up the Minjiang River channel, now the business is his own, and it is not a matter of always losing money.

So Wei Lianli repeatedly confirmed that the secret agreement between Zhou Lang and Changlin was valid, and set off for Fuzhou, from the Min River into Jianxi, and finally directly to Chong'an, Guangguang, Jianyang, Jian'ou and other counties in the tea-producing area.

Changlin cooperated so much because the war situation in Taiwan was extremely anxious, and it was impossible to tell the winner in the short term.

At this time, the Qing army was seriously lacking generals, and there were fierce generals like Li Changgeng on the sea, but there was a serious lack of land commanders, and Fukangan was already sick and couldn't get out of bed. On the contrary, the organization of the Heaven and Earth Society has become more and more perfect, and the combat effectiveness of the army has become stronger and stronger, and it has truly become a major problem for the henchmen.

Changlin has mobilized all the troops that can be mobilized, not only by the Fujian Governor Wulanbao, Haitan Town General Te Keshibu led 40,000 Fujian soldiers, but also from Zhejiang 30,000 Zhejiang soldiers, a total of 70,000 troops, through Penghu landed in Lugang, northern Taiwan, once took Changhua County, but then lost under Chen Zhouquan's counterattack, now 80,000 waterway soldiers, are besieged in a small area near Lukang.

Changlin had the intention to rush straight to Anping Port from the sea, but the opponent defended tightly, failed to attack many times, and the reinforcements were delayed, and Changlin's troops were stretched.

Zhou Lang's position is very important, not only the Qing army needs to encircle him, but even the Heaven and Earth Society is fighting for Zhou Lang.

Chen Zhouquan's hometown is in Tong'an, which happens to be a bay locked by Kinmen, and from Kinmen, you can go directly to Tong'an. Chen Zhouquan really wanted to fight back to his hometown, with his appeal in his hometown, and the people who stayed in the local heaven and earth, he was confident that those Tong'an, so as to land on the mainland, and compete with the Qing army in the Central Plains, instead of passively waiting for the Qing army to attack as now.

Changlin is also very aware of this situation, so on the one hand, he deployed heavy troops in Tong'an, on the one hand, to prevent the infiltration of the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society, and on the other hand, he was actually to prevent Zhou Lang from a surprise attack from the sea.

Zhou Lang was very satisfied with his current situation, especially the opening of the tea trade route, which made Zhou Lang understand that he was not only wealthy, but also the foundation of his achievements.

Zhou Lang has copied the tariff system of Donggang, and has developed, he finally opened the transaction tax, because tea is traded according to the standard box, mainly for foreign trade, so it is more formal, tax evasion and tax evasion is not big, so Zhou Lang set each box to draw a silver dollar, which is higher than the tax rate of Guangzhou value of 100 draws 5, but there are no various bad rules, in fact, greatly reduce the tax of merchants.

As a result, a large number of businessmen were attracted.

It's just a pity that before the tea season, the tea from the hinterland of Fujian flows into Xiamen, but it is the stock of tea in various places, so far, Wei Lianli has only transported 10,000 quintals of tea, and there is basically no profit at all.

But this trade road has been opened, as long as it is boiled until next year's spring tea, there is no doubt that a large amount of tea will pour into Xiamen. Zhou Lang predicts that by then, there will be one million silver dollars just by collecting taxes.

In addition to Zhou Lang, Henry Pitt is concerned about the situation in Jinxia, who is in Donggang, but he always pays attention to the situation in Xiamen, and asks Zhou Lang to write a report to the committee every week.

After learning that Zhou Lang had successfully developed the tea ceremony, Henry Pitt could not sit still and rushed to Xiamen in person, although the tea trade had not yet been fully opened, but he had exaggerated the description, saying that what he heard in the streams entering the sea was not the sound of rushing water, but the sound of gold and silver.

Henry Pitt came to Xiamen, of course, not only to hear the sound of gold and silver, but also to bring with him the East India Company's Taipan Brown.

Zhou Lang's alliance proposal to the East India Company through Henry Pitt had already received a reply from the Governor General of India, and it was unknown when it was replied and what the content of the reply was.

But he knows this kind of commercial operation too well, the Indian governor must have given a space for operation, at that time the Indian governor only knew that Zhou Lang would go to open up the coastal base in China, and could not guarantee whether the trade route could be opened, then he would definitely leave a living, and Zhou Lang would inform Brown, the representative of the East India Company in Guangzhou, that if it was confirmed that the other party had opened a trade route, then he could negotiate an alliance with the other party, and if the other party did not open and did not have the ability to open a trade route, he would ignore it.

So now that the trade routes are open, Brown and Henry Pitt are coming.