Chapter 51: Situation and Response

At the end of February, Tang Ling returned to Baochuan Island from the Caribbean Island, for the simple reason that the front-line battle report had been officially announced by the Qin Emperor not long ago, and various commendations had been issued.

Tang Ling knew that whether it was a positive or negative impact in the future, it would swarm in, if he grasped it well, the opportunity was in front of him, but a careless accident was also the result of a catastrophe, what kind of self he was in the eyes of the Taiwei and the Ocean Chamber of Commerce, Tang Ling was still very self-aware.

In the world of war, there is no clear division of the seasons such as spring, summer, autumn and winter on the island. In particular, the sea area from Baochuan Island has high temperatures all year round, the environment is not bad, and natural disasters are not frequent, so the surrounding fleets are rarely in distress in this sea area.

There is no shortage of sunlight in the sky, only fresh water, which means that as long as there is enough water, six crops of rice can be planted in a year, and fruit trees and vegetables can be harvested as long as they are ripe.

At this point, if outsiders were to see the huge daily consumption of fresh water on Treasure Ship Island, it would probably be infuriating!

Because of the Nine Great Branch Islands, a lot of land has been vacated on the main island, and in addition to the original villagers, no one has the right to come to the main island casually.

The hill in the southwest direction is now dug by Tang Ling dozens of caves, most of which are used as wine cellars, and the remaining ones are ice cellars, and the small reservoir on the edge of the village has now expanded more than ten times, and has been transformed into a lake by Tang Ling, which has a complete ecological system, the lake water is crystal clear, full of vitality, and has a strong water purification capacity.

The small lake on the main island is mainly used as a source of drinking water, as for the fields on the six branch islands, each branch island has an independent desalination system dedicated to desalination of seawater for irrigation, in order to save labor, Tang Ling also let Li Mu take the lead in making a complete set of drip irrigation equipment, the refining of steel makes the founders of these treasure boat islands busy for several months do not know the east and west, north and south, and even after a short period of time to see iron ore want to vomit.

In this way, now the grain production on Baochuan Island is almost killing all the producing areas of the same area, in addition to their own consumption, Warship Island has also begun to rely on Baochuan Island, Zhang Weilong even ordered to buy only grain from Baochuan Island in the future, in addition, on Poly Island, Xie Yunpeng will also send a fleet to purchase grain and wine.

Especially the wine, now there are only two to buy, but it has to go through a war of words to be able to return with a full load, in the future, it is estimated that it can only be sold normally through the form of auction, in terms of wine, Tang Ling still underestimated the attraction of craft brewing water to others.

In addition to production, today's Treasure Ship Island is also strong, as a specialty of the treasure ship has reached 15, other types of large and small power ships on the hundreds, the real battleship that has reached the 100-meter level has also reached 6 formations (one formation of three warships), which is also in addition to the Caribbean Pirate Regiment and the Dolphin Mercenary Group's warships.

With Hofune Island as the center, the sea area with a radius of 300 kilometers is full of patrol fleets of Hofune Island, and it is delusional for enemies in any direction to quietly approach Hofune Island!

In mid-March, Tang Wan'er returned from the imperial capital and brought back thousands of people, of which 800 were healthy women selected from the imperial capital, most of whom had some skills, and at the same time, the Dolphin Mercenary Group had also expanded to the scale of 1,000 people, plus the gold-class attack ship that was allowed to be retained by His Majesty the Emperor, the Dolphin Mercenary Group has officially become a mercenary support group.

Unlike ordinary mercenary groups, mercenaries are civilian armed forces recognized by the empire, and they need to be hired by the empire to go to the battlefield when necessary, so this is a status symbol, proving that the mercenary group has fleet-level strength, and it is also a responsibility, and they need to stand up to defend the country when necessary.

In late March, Tang Ling received news from the surrounding area that there were frequent pirate groups in the waters around Baochuan Island, including many powerful pirate groups at the level of the Nine Snake Banner.

The news came back that the top management of Treasure Ship Island held an emergency meeting.

"Sister, it seems that they have suffered so many losses, and finally they can't help but do it!"

"It's just that he's still sneaky as always, and he only dares to provoke pirates to deal with us..." Tang Wan'er looked disgusted, and was very disdainful of the other party's methods.

The group of cargo ships looted by the Caribbean pirate group before, during Tang Wan'er's return to the imperial capital, the two ministers who had no choice but finally came to the door, and Tang Wan'er knocked a lot of money hard, and left in disgrace.

After the two left, Zhao Wencheng came to Tang's house and conspired with Tang Lingyun's mother and daughter for several hours, and the alliance was successfully formed. In order to show his sincerity, Lord Zhao began to take the initiative to squeeze out the industry of the Ocean Chamber of Commerce in the local area, and now the internal affairs of Baochuan Island have always been taken care of by Tang Jiu, in order to facilitate commercial activities, the caravan of Baochuan Island has long been established.

So it is logical that the Tang family began to use the supply base of Baochuan Island to quickly seize the market with the cooperation of Zhao Wencheng, during which Tang Wan'er did not forget Tang Ling's explanation, causing the Qin Emperor to order one-fifth of the Qin Mountains to be sealed, and many of the ore veins that were not looked at before were cheapened by the Tang family and Tang Ling.

The pearls are covered with dust, and perhaps only Tang Ling can make them play their true role.

And Tang Lingyun also played a trick and promised the Qin Emperor that the conditions would be implemented by the Tang family's Ling Wan Chamber of Commerce, but all the five CDs produced would be handed over to the empire for free, but this time, they would not be stored in the empire's granary, but there would still be the Ling Wan Chamber of Commerce, which would only be directly ordered by the Qin Emperor when needed.

It can be said that this move has completely offended the two adults of Zhisu Neishi and Shaofu, and completely pushed them to the side of Taiwei.

"So what? In the near future, all the food in the empire will be produced from your nephew's chamber of commerce, and when we occupy the local market, those two moths can only be used as decorations, or our family Ling'er is right, if it is a moth, it must be eliminated! This is Tang Lingyun's righteous and awe-inspiring words in front of the royal brother and sister-in-law, but it also successfully persuaded the other party.

The looted goods of the Ocean Chamber of Commerce made Emperor Qin see clearly how loyal his two important ministers were, and it was a compliment to say that they were moths, this was simply two vampires, holding the two lifelines of the empire and sucking them desperately, as the lord of a country, Emperor Qin did not immediately order them to be cut down, it was already tolerant.

Internal and external troubles, today's Qin Empire has stood on the single-plank bridge, left and right are dead, and the road ahead is bumpy...