After sending a large amount of grain and grass for the trip, Liu Kunyi finally sent the mighty Chu military gift out of the country without danger.

This head had just sent Zuo Zongtang away, and Liu Kunyi could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, immediately afterward, ten small steamers flying the Li Zi flag came from the east on the Yangtze River.

Usually, there are no cargo ships coming from the direction of Jiangsu.

But the merchant fleets that sell their goods don't come up with ten small steamers at once.

The only one who has this ability is naturally the treacherous and cunning Li Hongzhang.

And it was Liu Mingchuan, the first fierce general under Li Hongzhang, who led the team.

This time, Liu Mingchuan said quite kindly that he would send 30,000 pieces of Ming cloth, 5,000 cigarettes from the big back door, and 20,000 Ming silver dollars, and affirmed that he was for Zuo Ji Gao Zhuang and hoped to pass through harmlessly.

Liu Kunyi was a little moved.

But considering Li Hongzhang's consistent character, coupled with the story of Lu Meng crossing the river in white clothes, Liu Kun was afraid that this was Li Hongzhang's Jiujiang to earn his own Jiujiang.

In the blink of an eye, another four or five days passed.

On this day, Liu Kunyi finally made up his mind.

If you don't make money, you're a bastard.

What's more, Li Hongzhang's handwritten letter also has Zeng Guoquan's appendix.

You must know that Zeng Guofan is still the crown prince of the Great Qing Kingdom, and he is still the Optimus Giant Pillar of the Great Qing Kingdom to shield the twist.

His brother was able to leave money on Li Hongzhang's letter as a guarantee, which left the tail to himself, which shows sincerity.

If you don't give face to Li Thief, you have to give Zeng Dashuai face!

Everyone is the supreme and pure minister of the Qing Dynasty, what bad intentions can they have?

Of course, the main thing is that the goods are too fragrant.

It's 30,000 pieces of cloth, and a few thousand cigarettes are a bit less.

Didn't Li Hongzhang give us a kickback for the benefits that Mingjun gave us?

Liu Kun gathered the army and set up the Jiujiangkou fort, preparing to make another mistake when they crossed the river.

However, Liu Kunyi soon regretted that he had wasted four or five days of time while hesitating.

When he brought his men and horses to the mouth of the Jiujiang River to buy the road money, he saw that there were still ten small steamers on the river!

I don't know when it started, but hundreds of ironclad steamers appeared on the river, whining and emitting black smoke, as if the evil dragon was destroying the world.

"Dashuai, do we still charge this toll......"

The two members of the pro-soldier stood and asked weakly.

"Collect it, collect your melon skin!"

Liu Kun slapped him in the face, "Blind your dog's eyes, this must be my big tomorrow soldier arrived, so hurry up and go back to organize the villagers to eat pot pulp!" ”

……

Liu Kunyi's judgment was not wrong, this huge fleet was the fleet temporarily requisitioned by the Ming Dynasty to transport supplies to Zuo Zongtang.

As early as the First Opium War, the British gunboats drove hundreds of kilometers into the Yangtze River to show off their might.

In later generations, the Yangtze River channel was treated and dredged, and the Chongqing section could pass 5,000-ton ships, and Wuhan could pass 10,000-ton ships.

Although the Yangtze River channel has not been vigorously renovated, there is no problem at all in sending eight or nine hundred tons, one or two thousand tons of cargo ships directly to Wuchang.

In recent years, since the shipping company has been released to take pictures, Daming's shipbuilding capacity has exploded.

Due to the shortage of skilled workers, compared with the Royal First and Second Shipyards, which can build 10,000-ton giant ships, most of the joint-owned and privately owned shipyards will not produce more than 5,000 tons of ships.

Two types of ships with mature technical reserves, namely, the 8,900-ton "Zhu Chenggong-class" multi-functional armed merchant ship and the 2,000-ton "Fucheng-class" transport ship, have become the main forces in the construction.

It is the large number of small and medium-sized ships that supports the rapid growth of the number of immigrants.

Now, Zhu Fuguidian ordered the Shanghai Ming Lijian Consulate to take the lead, and the Wuchang transportation team formed with the participation of the Wadao Metropolitan Protectorate and Nanyang United Fruit Co., Ltd. has requisitioned more than 730 large and small ships, but it has only slightly affected the shipping trade of the Ming Dynasty in the North Pacific, which shows the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty's civil ships.

Liu Kun's brain was buzzing.

As a conservative in the Hunan army, Liu Kun has always advocated seeking the road of self-improvement from traditional culture.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, but in that era when fierce medicine was needed, it must have limited his vision.

In the past few years, Liu Kun has heard that the Ming Dynasty is strong and strong, and the Ming goods are well-known all over the world, but he has not really come into contact with the Ming Dynasty.

Now seeing the huge fleet that can cut off the Yangtze River, there is a cold sweat behind it, and the two strands are standing.

He couldn't help but think that if that Cao thief had this fleet in the past, how could he change his life against the sky, let him Zhou Yu Zhuge be as wise as a demon?

Cao Agui, Cao Agui, you deserve to play Erqiao!

At this time, the herald hurriedly came and reported: "Great marshal, the fleet has raised the flag, saying that they are the merchant ships of the Heavenly Father, and asking why we are sinking the army at the mouth of the Jiujiang River, and whether we want to learn the Khwarazm of the mantis arm as a car?" ”

Liu Kunyi hurriedly asked people to reply, saying that he had admired the great power of tomorrow for a long time, and he came to watch the ceremony today.

The heralds rode to the shore on their ponies and pruned, and they exchanged flags again.

Immediately afterwards, as soon as Liu Kun passed through the clairvoyant mirror, he saw that the herald seemed to have lost his soul, and ran back desperately.

"Dashuai, the general named Morishita said that these armed merchant ships really can't be used, and there is nothing to show for Dashuai, so they will perform a 10,000-strong cannon salvo......"

Boom –

Before the herald could finish speaking, nearly 300 armed merchant ships showed their black holes and fired shells at the river beach.

In the past, four armed merchant ships could make the Maori clan fly and jump, but now it is the more advanced 300 armed merchant ships that collectively fire cannons.

For a time, a monstrous column of water was lifted on the river and the river beach, and the sediment and stones were raised high into the sky, turning into a stone rain and falling.

In a moment, the huge river beach, where Liu Kun wanted to spread his soldiers and horses, became fragmented like the surface of the moon hit by a meteorite group.

A thumb-sized piece of gravel landed right on Liu Kun's head, smashing out gurgling blood, but he didn't realize it.

3,000 Hunan troops and more than 30,000 Ganyong, at this time, like more than 30,000 clay figures, did not dare to move.

In the end, it was Governor Liu Kunyi and Liu Dashuai who reacted, and was the first to turn over and dismount, plunge his knees into the gravel ground, and kowtow heavily to the east: "Jiangxi fathers and elders welcome the return of the son of tomorrow, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Soon, like dominoes, the defenders of Jiujiangkou fell to their knees, and the sound of long live in Hunan and Jiangxi tones came and went.

As the so-called long live on both sides of the strait, Wang Shi has already crossed the Jiujiang estuary.

Between the mountains and long live, the first batch of 270 armed merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, mixed with ten shivering small steamers of the Li family, sailed upstream, passed through the Jiujiang River, and sailed to the confluence of Wuchang and Hankou at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River.