"Brother Huang, this is the base I chose. Kure-gun! Zhang Hao sent someone to call Huang Zhong and pointed to the map.

"Now the western and northern borders are full of rebellion, and the Central Plains is not peaceful. On the contrary, Jiangnan is a rare place of tranquility, although there have also been rebellions in the past two years, but they were quickly extinguished. Wu County is very close to densely populated states such as Qingxuyu, and if the situation is chaotic, many displaced people are willing and convenient to move over.

At the same time, Jiangnan is a miasma in the eyes of many people, it is a remote and desolate place, where we have a stable environment to develop in the early stage, and in the middle because of the geographical location, even if it is revealed, the imperial court will not pay too much attention to it at the beginning, and there is enough time to grow.

In addition, Kure County is one of the locations of government-run shipyards, and all the conditions for shipbuilding are sufficient. It is convenient for us to develop shipping. ”

Zhang Hao's condition for choosing a base area was to facilitate rebellion and development, and finally chose Wu County.

To be honest, Zhang Hao didn't know if his choice was perfect, but his skills were poor, at least he felt that this place of origin was not bad.

Perhaps those chaotic places are easy to gather people, such as Youzhou. But not to mention the fact that there is a lot of attention in those places because of the insurgency and war, and the population is also a big problem.

The choice of the land south of the Yangtze River is not without defects, not to mention the difficulty of unifying the north from the south, even war horses are relatively scarce in the south. Similarly, the population of Jiangnan is not large today.

War horses can be compensated for by shipping and commerce, and the population can be recruited by a stable environment.

All things considered, Zhang Hao couldn't forget the ship.

Huang Zhong nodded directly, "I'll send someone to inform the family in a while and let them prepare." When the time comes, we can go back and go straight away. ”

"Hmm. We have some things to do before we leave. Buy some boats at the shipyard near Luoyang first, and avoid the hardship of the long journey. You also have to send someone to Wu County to make a forward stop, at least prepare a place to stay. At the same time, we need to buy enough food so that we don't attract too many displaced people and take them by surprise. Zhang Hao said in a deep voice.

"I'm afraid the problem of food can't be done, because there is too much population here in Luoyang, not to mention the long-term purchase of grain from outside. And food prices are still very high. ”

Zhang Hao suddenly ignored this problem. It seems that it is more appropriate for people to buy food from other places.

After agreeing on these things, Zhang Hao and Huang Zhong selected two of them from the guards, let them go back to Xiangxiang first, and after bringing a certain number of people in Xiangxiang, they would go to Wujun to fight the front station first.

And Zhang Hao and Huang Zhong took Zhang Rang's letter of recommendation and the people sent by Zhang Rang to help, and directly found several shipyards near Luoyang. After learning some news in the shipyard, Zhang Hao was directly dumbfounded.

He mistook or overlooked something important. First of all, the shipbuilding technology of this era was not as outstanding as he imagined, although Huaxia began to develop shipbuilding technology a long time ago, but it was mainly applied to inland rivers. During this period, there were seagoing ships, but they were not manufactured by the shipyards around Luoyang.

Secondly, the waterway in this era was not as convenient as in later generations, and the Grand Canal, which played an important role in ancient times, had not yet been perfected in this era, and it was impossible to directly enter the Yangtze River from Luoyang through the inland river.

Knowing these circumstances, the matter can only end here for the time being, Zhang Hao took people back to the post house.

"Is the ship important to Zigao's plan?" Huang Zhong looked at Zhang Hao, who was frowning and thinking, and asked with some curiosity.

"It's important. There are powerful sailors in the land south of the Yangtze River, and they have the power to protect themselves. In addition, through shipping, it is convenient for commercial circulation. Moreover, through sea ships, you can directly trade with the north in exchange for war horses and other things. In addition, by sea, we could easily land on the coast during the war. ”

Zhang Hao nodded and explained to Huang Zhong the reason why he attached importance to shipping.

Maybe shipping is not essential, but Zhang Hao believes that shipping has a great impetus for his plan.

"Didn't the steward of the shipyard say before that Donglai County is the sea ship construction base of Dahan, and there must be a certain number of sea ships over there, so we can send someone there to buy them!" Huang Zhong said.

Zhang Hao nodded, "Now it's all about this." I hope Zhang Rang's name will also work in Donglai. If it doesn't work, I'll have to think about going back and slowly trying to build it myself. In fact, I had prepared to develop shipbuilding technology after arriving at the base, after all, how could I not use more advanced technology, and buy some ships in advance just to save time. After all, building a ship also takes time. ”

Huang Zhong's suggestion, Zhang Hao had considered it before, and he was ready to do so. At this time, he was actually considering whether the base he had chosen was suitable.

If you put the base in Dongnae-gun? Take advantage of the well-established shipbuilding environment and talents in Dongnae-gun. In addition, Qingzhou has not been peaceful in recent years, and there are many manpower to recruit.

However, Qingzhou is an important place for the Han Dynasty, and some things are of concern to the government and the opposition, which does not seem to be suitable for farming and climbing science and technology trees. Despite the abundant material support of modern times, Zhang Hao believes that he will still be the one who will win in the end. But he didn't know the difficulties and dangers in between, and even whether it would be a waste of time.

The more I think about Zhang Hao, the more headache I have, this is the disadvantage of not having a sober think tank around him. Zhang Hao doesn't think he's stupid, but he also doesn't think highly of his IQ, even if he has more than two thousand years of knowledge, but similar things are not taught in modern times.

I had already sent someone back to Xiangxiang to inform Mrs. Huang, and went to Wu County to play the front station, and it was a pity to work in vain.

Forget it, let's do it for now. When the time comes, let's go to Donglai and talk about it.

And in the final analysis, Zhang Hao believes that he has a great advantage, even if there are some problems in choosing the base area, he can still achieve his goal in the end.

Zhang Hao finally gave up thinking hard in this regard, he really thought about it, and all kinds of messy theories echoed in his mind, what world is like a chessboard that occupies a quadrangular win, and there are advantages in various places, etc.

"After a turn, it seems that nothing has been achieved for a trip to Luoyang." Zhang Hao looked at Huang Zhong and smiled bitterly.

Huang Zhong was stunned, he didn't know how to answer, although he had the same feeling, but at least he couldn't laugh at Zhang Hao.

"You can't come for nothing. Luoyang is the capital, and there are many powerful and wealthy people. It's just here to sell some 'treasures' in exchange for enough money. ”

Zhang Hao groaned. In this regard, Zhang Rang may be able to help introduce some rich people, and if you want to sell treasures, you must always let Zhang Rang know that what is given to him is the best. Zhang Hao, an overseas righteous citizen, respects him very much, so as not to make Zhang Rang unhappy and make a mess.

Zhang Rang now gives Zhang Hao a lot of face, Zhang Hao goes to visit, as long as he is at home, he can see him. For Zhang Hao's request, he naturally would not refuse, and he had to meet Zhang Hao's goods in person, and it was natural to take some from them to help Zhang Hao experience the goods.

No matter how greedy this eunuch was, but with his help, Zhang Hao's operation to sell treasures went smoothly. In the past few days, many powerful and wealthy people in Luoyang have begun to discuss these overseas treasures. What glass mirrors, what perfumes, shampoos, etc.

Such a treasure is obviously not suitable for payment with a large amount of money, so a large amount of gold, silver, and jade ginseng were concentrated in Zhang Hao's hands.

Because of the problem of manpower, such wealth is obviously not suitable for random here. Zhang Hao directly passed through the time and space gate, and asked a few guards to send these gold, silver, and jade ginseng to the modern villa, and it happened that there was a basement in Zhang Hao's villa that could be used for storage.

Huang Zhong and these guards came to another world through the time and space gate in person, and they were shocked when they saw all kinds of incredible things, and inevitably, they respected Zhang Hao more and more.

With the popularity of these overseas treasures in Luoyang, something unexpected happened to Zhang Hao. That is, he, an 'overseas righteous citizen', unknowingly has a certain reputation, and even some merchants take the initiative to seek cooperation, and they all guess that Zhang Hao has a unique technology.

In this regard, Zhang Hao naturally will not refuse, although it means that he has to divide the money to go out, but he can quickly get started with business and spread his goods all over the Han. If Zhang Hao develops by himself, I don't know how long it will take, and if there are mature experience and channels of these businesses, it will be much more convenient.

As for sharing some money, it is nothing to Zhang Hao. After all, time is more important. And when Zhang Hao masters this world, what is this money?!

Because he was busy discussing cooperation with these merchants, in order to save time, Zhang Hao sent guards again and asked them to go to Donglai to fight the front station.

This time, Xie Yang took the lead, directly through the Yellow River, down the river to Donglai, which can save a lot of time.

Sending Xie Yang away, Zhang Hao ushered in a somewhat unexpected guest, who turned out to be a celebrity who took the initiative to visit him!