Originally, for the girl surnamed Li, the British public also planned to make the same arrangement. But that is based on the fact that the selection of relatives has been decided, and now that there is competition on the side of the Qiong Navy, the young men can't be so big.

Guo Yi and Lin Hanlong both had clear goals, so they went to the Ming Dynasty Sister Lin, in order to show their sincerity, it was inevitable to go to Beijing City in person. Not to mention that there are not only two of them, several of them who originally just "booked" other daughters also plan to try their luck - anyway, Pang Yu and Zhao Lide have abstained from their fancies, and everyone else is on the same starting line. And as long as one goes, then the other competitors have to go, otherwise wouldn't it be equivalent to automatic abstention?

All nine applicants planned to go to Beijing for a trip, plus Hu Wen, Su Duxue, Wang Jiaojiao and several other members of the Women's Federation who handled the matter - this kind of thing could not have been done without the presence of women; and Li Qihan, who accepted Xu Guangqi's invitation and planned to go to the capital to meet this respected old man and exchange academic issues by the way - in fact, he didn't want to go, after all, he was not an astronomical expert as Xu Guangqi imagined, but just a meteorologist. And in the past few years since he came to the Ming Dynasty, his professional knowledge has almost been lost, if you really want to talk about scientific literacy, Xu Hui and Feng Yufei are the academic bulls of the Qiong Navy, God knows why Chen Tao recommended him.

It was only because Wang Jiaojiao insisted on following Hu Wen and them to Beijing for a trip that Li Qihan had to stop following - it is said that men often have two attitudes before and after marriage, but he Xiao Li is not this kind of person! Or that Wang Jiaojiao's methods are too superb, even after getting married, he can still be fascinated. Xu Guangqi, that old man, can ignore him, where his wife wants to go, that must be accompanied!

In this way, the number of people going to Beijing this time will reach 13 or 44, accounting for one-tenth of the total number, and it can be said that since the Qiong Navy reached a peace agreement with the Ming Dynasty, the largest group of unarmed personnel who are about to enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty -- although some necessary security personnel will be brought, they will certainly be insufficient relative to the national strength.

Can their safety be guaranteed? Even Hu Wen didn't dare to be too sure of this, she dared to go over because she was just a woman. The same is true for Wang Jiaojiao and others - since the Ming Dynasty didn't trouble Chen Tao and them, they wouldn't have trouble with a few female shorthairs. Even though Hu Wen used to be one of the members of the management committee, she has stepped down after all.

And yet now. With a current male member of the management team on the team, and several other important people who are indispensable to the collective, this size is enough to make the Ming Dynasty think badly - perhaps the Ming people do not know this, or they really do not have the intention and ability to attack the Qiong Navy. But isn't everything just a matter of whatever? Pinning one's own safety on others has never been a choice that these modern people are willing to make.

The committee even held a meeting to discuss whether or not to agree to the trip. But the final conclusion was not surprising - yes. After all, legs grow on other people's bodies, and people themselves are not afraid. It is impossible for the big collectives to force them not to ask for wives from others. Anyway, everyone is responsible for their own decisions, so don't complain if you encounter any trouble.

Of course, as a strong backing for all the people who crossed the crowd, the committee must make some arrangements for everyone's safety. Security is the primary issue, and this past was a friendly exchange, and it is obviously not appropriate to bring a large number of troops there. However, it is possible to send a relatively strong maritime force to cruise around Tianjin. In this way, even if there is any change on the side of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the exchange group can hold out for a period of time, this side can send troops from Tianjin to directly land and respond. It's a back road. Even if you can't use it. At the very least, it can be a lot more reassuring.

The Committee only had to make a decision, and they didn't have to worry about the specifics. How many people to send, how large the fleet, who led the team, and under what name did the fleet go north to Tianjin...... All of this had to be done by the staff team.

Everyone else in the group was also busy, and everyone was busy preparing their own set of things. Especially those who want to compete for the British nieces, they even pull their friends to discuss together. Make a detailed plan to chase the girl in order to emerge victorious in the upcoming battle.

People are busy. It's still for themselves, and although Pang Yu and Zhao Lide wisely pushed away the good family business that fell from the sky, they were still very sad and were arrested and had to continue to mix with this "exchange group". So much so that the two complained more than once - they knew that they couldn't push it off, so it was better to simply agree to join! Anyway, you have to worry about this trouble.

But they soon stopped complaining, because a bigger new problem fell on them.

Generally speaking, the people of the Qiong Navy have been living quite comfortably during this period, and the production and construction of various departments are gradually on the right track. Julie's successful pregnancy has made everyone have greater expectations for the future of their collective, and it is under the encouragement of this expectation that so many comrades will sign up for the "exchange group" of the Women's Federation, intending to start a family in this era.

However, for their neighbors, the Ming Dynasty, this period was not so wonderful. The Shandong Rebellion had just subsided, and the Liaodong side began to toss again. Historically, Kong Youde's attack on the rest of Dongjiang Town was completely destroyed in the Daming Dengzhou area, and the Ming Dynasty's strategic reserve forces in Shandong were completely wiped out.

But in this time and space, due to the intervention of the Qiong Navy, the damage to the national strength of the Ming Dynasty in the Dengzhou Rebellion was much smaller than in real history, and Kong Youde's attack on Lushunkou was also quite dragged due to the lack of strength, so that Lushun's guard Huanglong still had the time and energy to ask for help everywhere with his throat.

Of course, no matter how chaotic Lushun is, after all, it is separated from the Ming Dynasty by a sea, and there is no pain in the skin, and it is just a matter of talking about it twice in the court. And one of the things that made the princes in charge even more headache was their "wise" son of heaven, Emperor Chongzhen, who made a big toss himself......

As introduced above: Emperor Chongzhen has been busy making money since last year, he has been on the throne for six years, when he first came to power, there were some old foundations left by the carpenter's brother Tianqi, plus a large number of seizures by Wei Zhongxian's party, the state finances can barely support me, and after his "hard work" in recent years, as well as several large-scale wars in Liaodong, Shaanxi, Hainan, Shandong, etc., the treasury has been almost empty.

The young emperor was still a little ambitious at this time, and he wanted to change the situation. When he found out from the account books that the imperial court still had a large amount of salt tax that could not be collected, it was natural that he would have to check the old accounts and collect the tax arrears. It's just that he obviously doesn't know that what is on the books is always very different from what is actually in reality, especially the government's financial projects. After several urgings, in addition to taking off a large number of official hats, including the head of the household, he did not get much silver.

But many officials in the court were forced to complain by his toss, after all, Chongzhen held the power of life and death, although this power could not help him squeeze out the silver, but it could make those officials unlucky. These officials of the Ming Dynasty were forced to be in a hurry, and they couldn't do other things, and there was one skill that must have been cultivated to the full level, that is, to find an excuse to shirk their responsibilities - and in terms of salt administration and finance and taxation, they can really find a good target for carrying the black pot......

That's right, it's that Joan Navy in the south!

-- I don't know when there was a remark in the court that the salt tax could not be collected and that there was too much arrears because of the rampant illegal salt and the inability to sell official salt. When it comes to selling smuggled salt, there is no doubt that the most popular and ruthless thing in the whole world is the southern shorthair -- the key is that for the technology mastered by the Qiong Navy, salt is too easy to produce, as long as it is close to the sea, get a piece of land, and then build a few facilities according to the standard process, the salt brine of Baihuahua will be continuously produced, and if the grade is high, it will be filtered and crystallized a little, which is a large amount of high-quality table salt. Hainan Island was the first to produce sea salt in large quantities, and later Taiwan also began to engage in it, including the newly developed Weihaiwei to build its own salt farm. It's not just the Qiong Navy family who is doing it, the Zheng family hired the engineers of the Qiong Navy, and they also did two or three on their Zheng family's territory, if it weren't for the proper control of the scale here, the Zheng family would be able to fill all the coastlines of Taiwan Island with salt pans. Even Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, secretly got a ...... in Guangzhou after getting involved here

Every day, large quantities of salt are produced, and this salt is immediately transported onto ships and put into the mainland market in the most efficient and concise way - the entire sales channel and operation is under the sole responsibility of the Qionghai Trading Company. Julie's policy on salt in mainland China is two words: dumping.

After several years of operation, "Qiongzhou Sanbai" is now famous all over the world, white rice and white sugar are just the same, this good refined white salt may not be able to be eaten often even if it is a Chinese family in the past, but in just a few years, it was beaten into the price of cabbage by Qionghai salt. Nowadays, as long as Qionghai salt goes, not to mention the official salt, even the private salt dealers are almost extinct, and the salt merchants who can survive are all directly or indirectly selling Qionghai salt.

If the Ming Dynasty was a strong government, of course they could rely on the power of the state to prevent this kind of behavior, but unfortunately the current Ming Empire did not have this confidence at all, at least not in front of the Qiong Navy. Moreover, the trading company does not eat alone, and more than half of the benefits of the entire salt trade chain are still distributed to the government and related people in the area where the market is located, so local officials and chambers of commerce are actually very welcome to Qionghai salt, but the income generated by this "private salt" cannot be attributed to the Ming treasury, and the emperor can't get it.