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In the past, a large number of northern skins were required every year, and this alone accounted for the bulk of all commerce.

Now, the supply of skins in armaments is becoming more and more abundant...... Lu Wende has already completed the overall leather armor equipment for the soldiers of the arquebus army and the stone artillery army, and the next step is to implement it on the ordinary sergeants.

Therefore, the demand for large business projects is not as urgent as in the past.

Of course, the demand for donkeys, mules, horses, sheep and the like is still huge, but it is not impossible!

The northern part of the country, which had previously been in great demand for cotton cloth, cotton, tea, silk and medicinal herbs from the Great Song Dynasty, has now increased the demand for sea salt, candles and lamp oil...... So who needs more from whom, you can see at a glance!

There are other goods on both sides, but the varieties are too miscellaneous and they are not on a large scale.

Under such conditions, Liu Quan, a small area in eastern Sichuan, dared to ban his own sea salt and insult his own businessmen? Well?! Is he crazy?!

Resolute retaliation......

Lu Wende's soldiers frightened the merchants of Xiangyang Rongchang, in the past few years, everyone has been doing business peacefully, and everyone has earned some money, how can such a thing suddenly happen?!

Later, everyone inquired and understood the reason for the matter, and there was no one who did not scold Liu Quan, and even the merchants in eastern Sichuan, in addition to the salt merchants, also scolded him in private...... The Great Song Dynasty can do without the Eastern Sichuan Region, but the Eastern Sichuan Region cannot do without the Great Song Dynasty!

When Liu Quan's pacification envoy made up his mind to rely on the salt merchants to build a water army, he suddenly found out that he was wrong...... Other taxes in his eastern Sichuan region have been sharply reduced!

No, without other taxes, he can't complete the construction of the water army!

At this time, he realized that he couldn't do without Da Song...... He immediately wrote to the big leader Kublai Khan. While sending an envoy to negotiate with Lu Wende, the envoy of Jinghu System, I would have banned your sea salt, and you shouldn't have banned my business and trade, this is unfair and an act of provoking war.

That's what it means.

This time. Lu Wende also knew that Liu Cheng was now building a warship in Fengjie, and he sneered, the competition armament? Let's compare!

He immediately drove the messenger away, what is there to talk about? You first robbed my family's goods in the eastern Sichuan region, and now you come to accuse me, there is nothing to talk about, as long as I see a merchant or goods from the eastern Sichuan region, I will confiscate it!

Lü Wende's Xiangcheng and Fancheng were originally well armed. Not to mention that he had a very good personal relationship with Zhang Jia Nidao, and at the same time, the Great Song Dynasty has valued this place since the time of Song Lizong.

What Lu Wende often talks about now is "Xiang and Fanchengchi are strong, and the soldiers have been in reserve for ten years, so that Lu Liu will stick to it." If Liu is reckless, spring will be underwater. I want to take it, than to be afraid to go away! This sentence.

It's definitely confidence.

Afterward. When the arquebus and stone cannon were sent one after another, he had the idea of fighting Liu Quan, but he didn't want to start a private war, but he didn't want to be bullied...... If Liu Quan dares to rule the water army. Then, he, Lu Wende, will dare to go-for-tat!

Lu Wende, the envoy of Jinghu Manufacturing, ordered: "Build me a thousand sand boats!" ”

The sand boat is an excellent type of ship in the ancient Chinese river and sea transport ships, also known as the "anti-sand flat-bottomed boat", which is one of the "four ancient ships", as early as the Tang and Song dynasties. It has been formed and is named a sand boat because it is suitable for navigating shallow and sandy waterways.

Among the flat-bottomed sea vessels along the Yangtze River, the structure of the sand boat is unique.

Its overall square head and square tail are commonly known as "square bows"; The deck surface is spacious, the depth is small, and the freeboard is low; The use of girder arches allows the deck to quickly drain waves; There is a "out of the canopy" for easy installation of the elevator, and there is a "virtual boat" for easy operation of the canopy.

The ship is equipped with many masts and sails, the speed is relatively fast, the rudder area is large and can be lifted and lowered, and some rudder blades are lowered below the bottom of the ship when going to sea, which can increase the effect of the rudder, reduce horizontal drift, and the rudder can be raised in shallow water, which is the equipment that the West has not had.

The sand boat has the characteristics of wide, large, flat and shallow draft above the overall head, square tip, flat bottom and shallow, and the bottom is flat and can sit on the beach, not afraid of stranding, the draft is shallow, and the influence of the tide is relatively small; The sand boat has many masts and sails, high masts and high sails, shallow draft, low resistance, can sail quickly on the Yangtze River, and can also sail quickly on the sea, with good seaworthiness; Large load capacity.

The carrying capacity of the general sand ship is about 1,000 materials, nearly 200 tons, and there are also large ones, which may reach 800 tons.

The Lv-style military group sailors like to use this type of ship...... Its deck is spacious enough to have more crossbows and more soldiers.

Another point is that it can also be used as a merchant ship in private, and do some private work for the Lu family's business, of course, in the name of transporting military funds.

As for the commercial activities in the open sea, it cannot be used, and the bottom of the sand boat is flat, and it cannot break the waves of deep water.

As a result, the two places began a regional-level naval arms race.

Of course, Liu Quan, the provincial and pacification envoy of Kuilu, did not know that if it was three nights later, Lu Wende, the envoy of the Jinghu system, would die of gangrene on his back...... At that time, the entire Lu Clan's military group was in a period when the dragons were ownerless, where did anyone have the heart to have a naval competition with him?!

Liu Cheng cautiously wrote to the big boss to explain his current situation...... There is really no money and supplies, there is no shortage of sailors, and the people on the side of the Yangtze River, which one can't be water-based?!

At this time, the big leader Kublai Khan almost calmed down his anger, and there is also the credit of Pingzhang Ahma's persuasion.

At present, Heizhang Ahmada is trying every means to restore and develop the economy and actively prepare for the armament to go south, but the cost is very huge and worrying.

In order to get him more money, the big boss Kublai Khan overtook Ahmad to take charge of the political affairs and envoys of the Zhongshu Pingzhang, so that the wealth and power of the whole country were concentrated in his hands.

The bigger the official position, the more Pingzhang Ahma's ideas became, he picked up beans in the with earnestness, and for a while he played to recast gold and silver, and for a while he came up with the idea of prohibiting the local people in Taiyuan from boiling salt and selling it for profit, and the flies peeled the flesh on their faces, and scraped the powder on the wings of the butterflies, which was very popular with Kublai Khan.

At present, Ahmad is vigorously promoting the "calculation adjustment" method to achieve the goal of accumulating wealth in the name of checking and cleaning up government revenues.

In fact, anti-corruption and anti-corruption, the more anti-corruption, the more greedy; Calculate and calculate, the more rational, the more chaotic.

The method of calculation made the officials at all levels of the Yuan Dynasty eat small fish and eat shrimp, and in the end, it was the grassroots officials and ordinary people who suffered big losses.

They engaged in monopoly by officials and sellers, exercising monopoly rights over silver, iron, salt, etc., and ordered the government to cast agricultural tools from the people, making the quality of agricultural tools quite shoddy and expensive.

At the same time, he cleverly set up a name, increased various tax items, arbitrarily increased taxes, and even the dead had to collect funeral taxes, which can be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented.

However, he opposed Kublai Khan's method of raising taxes by surprise, believing that taxes must be collected in a planned and step-by-step manner, and that it would be inappropriate to raise taxes too quickly or too slowly...... Eventually, the big boss Kublai Khan agreed to suspend the increase.

What has been collected will be used as the starting fund for the reconstruction of the navy. (To be continued.) )