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Just when the Huo Jiajun was gradually tightening the clockwork for the upcoming American War, the increasingly prosperous Keelung Port, with a displacement of 5,000 tons from the north and south, the high-end cruise ship belonging to the Huojia Pacific Passenger Transport slowly approached the hard cement wharf. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

With the uninterrupted construction of this northernmost port in Huojiajun in the past five years, this once small coastal city in Taiwan has rapidly risen to become the world's leading port in the entire Far East, and thanks to Taiwan's convenient railway double track and highway around the island, as well as the rapid development of industry and commerce, the fixed berth of Keelung Port has reached 500,000 tons, with an annual throughput of 6 million tons, second only to the British colony Singapore on the north shore of the Strait of Malacca!

With the rapid development of the economy, industry and commerce of Nanyang and Taiwan, Keelung Port has now become a necessary route between Northeast Asia and Europe, and almost every passenger and cargo ship between Europe and the Qing Dynasty or Japan will choose to dock in Keelung to replenish fresh water and supplies, as well as other necessities for ocean voyages!

Therefore, the busy shipping industry and industry and commerce have contributed to the prosperity of Keelung, whether it is white people from Europe, black people who work as coolies, and people from other countries, you can see them in this increasingly prosperous port, so the navigator who has cut off the long pigtails on the back of his head does not show any unusual look on the faces of his fellow people who are wearing long robes and horse coats and a pair of Qing Dynasty clothes who come down from the ship!

"It seems that this island of Taiwan, the Qing Dynasty will never come back!" Lu Kangcheng looked at the port workers around him who had already cut off their braids and wore short clothes and trousers. I couldn't help but say with emotion.

In fact, as a descendant of the Lu family, a top family within the Qing Dynasty that has been inherited for thousands of years, he knows some things inside the Forbidden City very well. At the beginning, the Nanyang People's Army had already controlled Taiwan Island and Hainan Island, but after it was stabbed to the court. A group of Manchu princes and ministers were naturally shouting and beating. But soon when the People's Army faced the Westerners, after a series of brilliant victories reached Beijing, most of the people were silent, and after the Huo Jiajun's warships were launched one after another and achieved the status of the world's sixth largest navy, no one ever mentioned the matter of retaking Taiwan and Hainan Island from the Huo Jiajun, and it was impossible for Cixi, who lived in the Forbidden City, to fight for two foreign places. To offend the Huo Jiajun, a powerful force like a tiger and a wolf, it would be really bad if they were also interested in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, you must know that the People's Army is not a blue-eyed and white-skinned foreigner. It's an authentic person.

"What Brother Yaoyang said is that although the People's Army has not openly occupied Taiwan and Hainan Island, due to their strong strength, Lafayette and the ministers of the court have no intention of taking them back!" Li Jingshe said with some disdain.

As a descendant of the Li family. This time, he came to Taiwan mainly because of his father Li Hanzhang and second uncle Li Hongzhang. came for his daughter's marriage to Huo Shan, the only son of the Huo family. Because, the Li family and the Huo family also decided to marry four years ago, so after the news that the Huo and He families were going to marry at the end of the year reached the Li family, they were naturally not far behind, after all, it was different from a few years ago! The current Huo family has long surpassed the Li family trapped in the Qing Dynasty in terms of power and influence!

In just five years, it defeated the Dutch and Portugal and forcibly occupied Nanyang, and now they have even snatched the equivalent of half of the Qing Dynasty's land from the Americans. Even Britain and France dare not easily offend! What a great might! Alas, why is there such a big difference between the same Chinese?" Wang Wenbin looked at the vast and prosperous Taipei Port. Said with a somewhat complicated expression.

Hearing his words, the other two also felt the same way, only when they really stood on the land under the control of the Huo Jiajun, they more deeply realized what kind of gap there was between the forge ahead within the Huo Jiajun and the deep twilight of the Qing Dynasty.

"Alright, two! When we get here, it's time for us to go our separate ways!" Li Jingshe turned around and said. On the way here, he had already learned that the two sons of the wealthy families beside him, who were also from a thousand-year-old family, were looking for Lu Dong and Wang Wei, the children of the two families who had gone to Nanyang to study without permission! Of course, if it was simply to find someone, they would also dispatch the second generation of the two families, and it was obvious that the Lu and Wang families also took a fancy to Nanyang, a new land that was rising day by day!

"Hehe, don't worry, don't worry! Those two little rabbit cubs are doing well now, and we are not in a hurry, but the relationship between Brother Li and the children of the Huo family is more important, I believe Brother Li won't mind if we go together to congratulate us, right?" After Wang Lu and the two glanced at each other tacitly, Wang Wenbin said with a smile.

With the passage of time, the People's Army of Nanyang has become more and more powerful, the army is strong, the territory is vast, the economy is more and more developed, and the influence on the surrounding areas, especially the Qing Dynasty, is also increasing, so the big families, including the Wang Lu family, also have to face up to the rise of this new force! Especially after the Qing Dynasty, which has been established for more than 200 years, has accumulated many hardships and the trend of losing the country has appeared, these big families who have been inherited for thousands of years are thinking about the future way out of the family, and it is obvious that the People's Army of the same culture and species in Nanyang is the most worthy of investment!

However, it is a pity that they are lagging behind the Li family and the He family, and through their marriage with the Huo family and other top wealthy families in Nanyang, they have achieved unimaginable development in recent years, especially in business, and these two families, which could only be regarded as first-class families in the Qing Dynasty, have seen a very strong rise trend! This makes other wealthy families who are suffering from no way out even more envious.

Therefore, after getting the Li family to come to Taiwan in order to prepare for the marriage with the Huo family, the families of the Lu and Wang families, who have been in-laws for generations, each sent their own descendants within the family to follow. In order to establish a relationship with the powerful Huo family through the Li family, it is convenient for the forces of the Lu and Wang families to enter Nanyang.

Looking at these two guys with smiling faces, Li Jingshe couldn't help frowning, as a descendant of the Li family, of course he knew what the idea was in the hearts of these guys with the same identity as him, it was nothing more than wanting to take the opportunity to contact the Huo family to make profits for their family. In the past few years, as the Huo family has become stronger and stronger, and the Li family's various factories have obtained more and more benefits from Nanyang, the number of people who have the same idea with these two guys, and then approach the Li family under various pretexts, has gradually increased.

However, unlike others, the strength of the family standing behind them is too strong, although the Wang and Lu families have long ceased to be strong in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but as a large family that has been inherited for thousands of years, their influence is all over the Qing Dynasty, especially in Hebei and Shanxi, after a thousand years, they are even more intertwined in these two provinces, and their power is huge and stable, even if it is the Qing court, it is difficult to shake them!

In the face of such forces, especially when Li Hongzhang is now the minister of Beiyang and the governor of Zhili, he cannot contradict the two families, especially the Lu family.

"Everyone, please leave immediately, there are too many of you, and you are already blocking the traffic of the docks!" At this time, a dock patrol officer in a black military uniform and a large-brimmed hat ran over to warn.

Within the Huo Jiajun, the police are different from the police, in addition to the criminal police who usually specialize in major criminal cases, there are also patrol police in charge of public security patrols, traffic police in charge of traffic, and there are originally special police, but this part of the special police can only be handed over to the second-line troops of the Huo Jiajun!

"Okay, let's leave immediately!" Li Jingshe, who knows more about Taiwan, naturally understands that Taiwan under the control of the People's Army and the Qing Dynasty are two completely different societies, and these policemen in Taiwan are not rotten to the root within the Qing Dynasty, and they will only bully the ordinary people to arrest them quickly, they are real law enforcers, if you don't follow the rules, even foreigners will be whipped and locked up in a prison cell!

Hearing his words, the patrolman nodded and stepped aside, apparently supervising them to leave quickly.

"I understand what the two of you mean, I'll introduce you to the person in charge of the Huo family when the time comes! Now let's leave quickly, the rules here don't matter what our identity is!" Li Jingshe said quickly.

Hearing him say this, the two who achieved their goal naturally had no opinion, and they had more or less heard about the strict laws and rules within the Nanyang People's Army, even if you spit on the street casually, if you are caught, you will be fined, and if the circumstances are serious, you will even be punished with a few whips. They don't want to be punished for this, and they will be embarrassed when the time comes!

As the descendants of the three big families of Wang, Lu, and Li, they naturally traveled with a lot of luggage and servants, especially Li Jingshe, who was about to marry her daughter, and this time she brought a large amount of dowry and domestic servants, so many people gathered on the dock was naturally very eye-catching, and it was no wonder that the patrol police would target them.

"May I ask who is Li Jingshe, Mr. Li?" Just as the three of them were anxiously instructing the servants to pack their luggage, one was wearing an elegant dark blue 'new Han suit' (compared to the current tunic suit, the two large pockets at the bottom are missing, and the small lapel design of the American military uniform during World War II is borrowed.) ) walked over and asked.

"I am, are you?" Looking at the young man in front of him, Li Jingshe was very sure that he had never seen this person before.

"Hello Mr. Li, I was sent by Fu Bo to pick up Mr. and the young lady to Taipei!" The young man said respectfully, the young lady naturally refers to Li Wen who came to Taiwan with Li Jingshe to prepare for the marriage with Huo Shan!

Hearing his words, Li Jingshe's face showed a strong look of joy, and hurriedly said: "Let's go quickly! Don't let your in-laws wait!" )