The conditions brought by Jia Shilu were exactly Liu Kongzhao's purpose to steal Yang Chao's shipping business. Latest chapters

After Yang Chao left Nanjing, the shipping business was affected by the malicious competition of other water camps, and it was affected a lot for a while.

But after Yang Chao came back, he soon resumed shipping, and the escort fee for crossing the river every day reached about 400 taels of income, and the average daily voyage to Guazhou (Yangzhou) and Zhenjiang could reach more than 600 taels, and there was a flow of more than 1,000 taels a day, which was more than 30,000 taels a month, no matter how you look at it, this is a huge income.

At the same time, because Yang Chao monopolized shipping, he offended many other colleagues in the water camp, such as this Jia Shilu had some estrangement from Yang Chao, under the instigation of these people, Liu Kongzhao was very hot-eyed, so he made a mobilization of troops, intercepted Yang Chao's fleet, and forcibly came to rob Yang Chao's business.

The reason why such a big battle was set up was to give Yang Chao a dismount and use a huge strength gap to make Yang Chao succumb, after all, Yang Chao's record in Haizhou was too bluffing, otherwise Liu Kongzhao would not have to spend so much time and directly use the identity of the commander of Caojiang to suppress it.

It was precisely because the person who wanted to rob was Yang Chao that Liu Kongzhao played so big that he even got the gunboats out.

Then Shi Kefa coordinated from it, and Liu Kongzhao sent someone to talk to Yang Chao about the conditions, but he didn't expect Yang Chao to agree directly, and he agreed so simply.

Jia Shilu was quite surprised, he came with conditions, in fact, it can be eased, if Yang Chao is willing to hand over the canal line from Nanjing to Guazhou and Zhenjiang, Liu Kongzhao can accept it, the business of six hundred taels of silver a day is enough for several water camps to eat, but he didn't expect Yang Chao to agree, and even the Nanjing river crossing line from Xinjiangkou to Puzikou was given up. 【Love Go】

But no one thought that there was little meat in the mouth, so Jia Shilu didn't say much, and after catching up with Yang Chao, he immediately rushed back.

In fact, for Yang Chao, what can he do if he disagrees. I really can't beat you Liu Kongzhao now, when you get to the river, it won't work just by relying on bravery, and it doesn't matter if the other party is a rabble. rushed directly to fight, but the other side was a regular fleet with gunboats, and bravery in front of the artillery could only take a back seat.

This is why several Han dynasties in history blocked the nomadic forces north of the Yangtze River, because of water warfare, the superiority of weapons over the spirit of bravery. Therefore, Yang Chao also knew that he had elite soldiers and strong generals under him, but he was helpless to take Liu Kongzhao, who had the advantage of warships, Yang Chao could break 10,000 from 600, but it was absolutely impossible to fight more than 50 ships with three ships. (800)

So it's better to just give up.

In the next few days, Yang Chao didn't say anything about the loss of shipping, as if it had never happened at all, even if Liu Kongzhao's fleet arrived at Xinjiangkou and set off from Longjiangguan Wharf to Puzikou every day, earning a lot of silver that belonged to Yang Chao, even if Yang Chao's subordinates were all indignant. Yang Chao did not speak, but suppressed his subordinates and strictly ordered them not to leave the camp.

Yang Chao just devoted himself to training, and recruited a thousand soldiers from Haizhou, plus Yang Chao's five hundred elite soldiers, this is only one thousand and five, which is still far from the 5,000 soldiers that Shi Kefa promised.

And he reported directly to Shi Kefa in a very regular manner, and did not recruit soldiers privately. Xiang Zuo Liangyu's wanton behavior, regardless of the constitution of the Ministry of War, Yang Chao can't do it, after all, there is no such force as Zuo Liangyu. has to take into account the attitude of the imperial court, and Yang Chao is a responsible person, his family is in Nanjing, and he arbitrarily implicates his family, a hero like Zuo Liangyu doesn't care, but Yang Chao can't care less.

In addition to Haizhou Minzhuang. In addition to his elite soldiers, Yang Chao also needs to recruit 3,500 soldiers, and in the past, he must have gone to the guards along the river to recruit them, but now, if he offends Liu Kongzhao, he is afraid that he will find trouble, and Yang Chao has a better choice, that is, there are almost 50,000 refugees on the dock.

These refugees in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River from Wuchang to Jiujiang are available, people are cheap when they leave their hometowns, these people are very low in spirit in a foreign land, very low-key, most of them rarely cause trouble, honest and hard-working, but very good soldiers, and they were recruited by Yang Chao, they can only rely on Yang Chao, they have no background in Nanjing, and they will definitely be very obedient.

The so-called erection of the recruitment flag, not afraid of less food people, these refugees who are doing coolies and can only eat and wear, can't wait to be a soldier for Yang Chao.

Three thousand five hundred people were recruited in one day, and they were all the youngest and strongest young men among them.

"Now that all the recruits have been recruited, it's time for everyone to be busy, starting today, three times a day! Once in the morning, noon, and evening, within 10 days, I asked the three groups of soldiers in front of me to leave the boot camp after completing their training and enter the formation of various teams. Within a month, I want these 3,500 people to finish the training, tell the soldiers, there is enough food every day, no one has two taels of meat at noon, take out all your energy, and give me hard training! ”

After the recruitment of new recruits was completed, Yang Chao immediately held a meeting with the instructors of the new barracks training, and he wanted to go all out to urge the newly established company barracks to complete the three-month journey in one month.

Yang Chao has no time, a month and a half has passed, he can only hold out for three months, and after a month he must get an elite soldier and get back everything that belongs to him.

This is no longer about the current interests, and the cooperation with the Zheng Group, has boasted of Haikou, saying that in three months he will start to monopolize the Yangtze River freight, and the Zheng family has offered such a high price, but now he has been suppressed by Liu Kongzhao, and the shame is still secondary, the key is to lose the opportunity to cooperate with the Zheng family, how to feed the 100,000 refugees, he should go bankrupt.

Therefore, one month is the minimum, and a month later, use this army to declare war with Liu Kongzhao, and if Liu Kongzhao is not defeated, the Zheng family will not take Yang Chao seriously at all, not only will he lose an opportunity to cut into the power of the Ming Sea, but even the foundation he had previously operated will be destroyed.

So all of a sudden, the entire Xinjiangkou battalion was driven by Yang Chao's chickens, flying dogs, and everyone was holding back their strength to toss, and those recruits were bitter, but no one was willing to quit.

These are all refugees, one by one from other places to Nanjing, the place of life is not familiar, and most of them are dragging their families, they lost all their savings on the way, there is no meal, Yang Chao is enough to attract them, and promised to give them five dollars in a month, which even their family's food and clothing have been solved, even if it is a large family with a large population, the family will not starve to death if they work on the dock.

Therefore, no one dared to give up this opportunity, and they all looked forward to becoming an official private in a month and getting five dollars of silver to settle their families.

Therefore, the desire to die of being practiced every day, practicing in the morning, practicing at noon, and practicing at night, in addition to eating every day, is training, and when it comes to night, it is sore, and the next day it recovers and continues to be destroyed.

Ten days later, the first batch of scholar soldiers, Haizhou Minzhuang left the camp, the scholars ended the torture and returned to the logistics department under the jurisdiction of Huangfeng Mansion, Minzhuang grouped into each war team to become a private, but their training was not over, they began to train new skills in the war team, the bird gunners practiced loading, and the spearmen continued to practice assassination, but it was no longer the kind of false stabbing in the new barracks, but the stabbing stakes, and the archers, sword and shield men were also practicing hard under the leadership of their own teams.

Twenty days later, under the frantic training, the refugee recruits completed the military posture and step training and began the martial arts assassination training.

At this time, Yang Chao convened a meeting of senior officers and told them that the business of Shuiying was robbed by Liu Kongzhao, and he couldn't hold out for many days, and if he couldn't get it back, Yang Chao said that he could only close Shuiying and let everyone go home.

This news directly made the officers blow up, what is the situation, everyone killed Jiang bandits, fought in Haizhou, and it was easy to become an officer, and suddenly they had to leave the barracks and go back to do a bitter haha, who can accept this, and immediately the crowd was excited, saying that they would kill the Caojiang Admiral's Mansion and kill that Uncle Liu.

Yang Chao stopped the officers' commotion, but asked them to pass it on, telling them the lower-level officers and all the soldiers under them, telling them that if they couldn't get back the business, everyone would go their separate ways in the future and go their separate ways.

The elite soldiers who have been with Yang Chao for a long time are naturally very angry, but what is even more excited is the refugee soldiers who are assassinating in the recruit camp, they are so easy to look forward to the fact that they are about to finish their training, why did they suddenly jump out of an Uncle Liu to rob Lord Yang's business, and they also heard that if Lord Yang can't survive this hurdle, they can't even feed the refugees on the dock, and they now have family members and relatives who are counting on the life on the dock.

The mood in the barracks was extremely irritable, and Yang Chao had to close the camp gate and give instructions again, asking the officers to tell the soldiers that they could train hard to get back the business.

But Yang Chao's movement was too big, and he said that he wanted to take back the business, and he was crazy about training, which made many people nervous for a while, and even Shi Kefa heard the movement, and specially asked Yang Chao to go over to ask, Yang Chao mysteriously said that he would definitely not make a mess, but it still made Shi Kefa feel uneasy.

Liu Kongzhao was also a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect Yang Chao to be so good, so he asked the middleman Jia Shilu to take the initiative to find Yang Chao, telling Yang Chao that everyone is seeking wealth, don't hurt the harmony, if Yang Chao is willing, he is willing to give up the route from Xinjiangkou to Puzikou, and everyone will make money together.

Yang Chao refused again, but expressed his willingness to reconcile with Uncle Liu, but asked Liu Kongzhao to return all the ships that had plundered the merchants.

After Liu Kongzhao snatched Yang Chao's business last time, Shi Kefa's negotiation didn't work, and the fifty merchant ships and the goods on them were all hacked by Liu Kongzhao, but Yang Chao had already released his words, telling all customers to help them get back to the ship, and they would compensate for their losses in the future.

Liu Kongzhao agreed this time, but the goods had already been sold.

Yang Chao said that it would be okay to return to the ship, so the two sides seemed to be reconciled, and Yang Chao's soldiers were trained.

After that, Yang Chao was in the Jinchai Building, feasting all the customers who had losses, and telling them the news that they were going to return to the ship. (To be continued...... ）。