"Xiaomin meets Captain Breaking Waves."

"I won't talk about official positions here today, Boss Qiu, sit."

After Qiu Qilin made a salute, he asked his subordinates to give gifts, and the white shopkeeper took it and arranged Qiu Qilin in the upper seat area.

Originally, it was a bit reluctant to sit in the seat area with Qiu Qilin's status, because the Fleet Chamber of Commerce had not completely monopolized the shipping industry in Dongshan Prefecture, and it was nothing to the navy.

But Qiu Qilin was brought directly to Zhang Jun by Liu Yifeng, Zhang Jun has no opinion on this, and the white shopkeeper who is good at observing words and emotions naturally knows that this Qiu Qilin must be introduced to Zhang Jun by Liu Yifeng, and Zhang Jun knows this, maybe they have already met in advance.

The white shopkeeper guessed very correctly, when Zhang Jun went to Liu Yifeng's Jinshan Sweet Village to see the inlaid bean candy last night, Liu Yifeng secretly asked Zheng Zhilong to notify Qiu Qilin to come over. Qiu Qilin has not returned to the headquarters of the Fleet Chamber of Commerce because he wants to participate in the opening of Zhang Jun's restaurant, and lives in Xinjinshan City.

After getting the notice, he immediately rushed over and pretended to meet Zhang Jun under the introduction of Liu Yifeng.

After that, relying on Liu Yifeng's matchmaking, the three of them ate the freshly cooked rice candy and chatted about the fleet chamber of commerce's investment in flying clippers.

Naturally, there was no result in such a short period of time, but it was a good start, Zhang Jun did not deny Qiu Qilin's idea of wanting to join, but just said that he needed to go back to discuss specific matters. Qiu Qilin knew what he wanted when he heard this, and understood that the clipper project was still in the planning stage, which was not something he could interfere with at present, but Zhang Jun had already remembered the attitude of Qiu Qilin and the Fleet Chamber of Commerce. Once the project reaches the stage where the private sector can intervene, Qiu Qilin will take the initiative to come to the door to join, and the resistance will be much smaller.

As for when it will reach that stage, there is no Liu Yifeng here. So Qiu Qilin came today to congratulate him.

But as soon as Qiu Qilin sat down, before he had time to pat a few sycophants, Zhang Jun had to greet him in person. is also an old acquaintance, Yang Changbai's group of 3.

However, they represent the Maritime Safety Bureau, and they represent Song Yingxing, and Zhang Jun must take the initiative to greet them. Not only that, the people who had already sat down in the hall all stood up collectively and followed Zhang Jun out according to the order of the seats just now.

Liu Yifeng didn't go to join in the excitement, he went back to the kitchen and communicated with Lao Wang for a few words, then found a spare room and sat down.

The excitement outside has nothing to do with him, there is Shopkeeper Chen and Shopkeeper Bai in charge of management, and Lao Wang is in charge of the kitchen, so he is no longer needed. Today's protagonist is also Zhang Jun, even if he participates in the party, it is difficult for Liu Yifeng to expand any contacts, and others will not waste too much time and energy to remember him as a little person.

Even if you remember, before Liu Yifeng can't show the matching strength, others will only think that he is Zhang Jun's person. Even if he knows Qiu Qilin, his main focus today will be on Zhang Jun.

Instead of bothering to be Zhang Jun's background board, it is better to take a good rest and summarize the gains and losses of the past year.

In general, Liu Yifeng is steadily moving towards his goal, which he is sure of, but he once again objectively and rationally analyzes whether his goal is reasonable.

To be honest, when he first set his goals, he never thought that he would know people like Song Yingxing and Zhang Jun, and he never thought about taking the route of officialdom. Later, I met and because of the identity of the smuggling gunners and the people's husband, I was afraid that I would be deeply involved with them, so I hid in the mountains to pan for gold. finally found gold, and another Xia Jie appeared, forcing him to expose his secret in advance.

Fortunately, the result is still good, the brothers have been whitewashed, and they have also been whitewashed to some extent, but they are a little unhappy to be pinched by Song Yingxing.

At the beginning, Liu Yifeng was quite proud that he was "pinched" by such a big official as Song Yingxing. This is very understandable, just like an ordinary person in later generations who was tricked by the provincial party secretary to help him do things because of his talent, isn't this a recognition of his ability, isn't it enough to be embarrassed?

But soon Liu Yifeng regained his composure.

He has no background, so being valued by the secretary of the provincial party committee will block the upward channel of someone next to the secretary of the provincial party committee?

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents.

This statement may be just a metaphor in later generations, and it may really kill people in ancient times. It is not impossible to find an opportunity to hire some explorers and give Liu Yifeng such a thing.

After thinking about this, Liu Yifeng sighed, feeling that he still had to cultivate his own power first, manage his own social circle, and make those who were blocked from rising because of their talents not dare to take risks. Then it is necessary to build a city in the south of Los Angeles, and there is nothing wrong with your goals.

Then he began to sort out his current relationships.

The interpersonal relationship established by the city does not seem to be very useful at the moment, but he will not give up, and he still has to burn the cold stove if he has the opportunity.

The biggest interpersonal relationship in Yushan City is Song Yingxing and Zhang Jun, both of whom value their talents, so they don't need to do anything else, just do the things they are currently giving them well. Of course, Zhang Jun still has to help him support this restaurant, but fortunately, Lao Wang will do it for him.

The really tricky thing is Song Yingxing's side, Liu Yifeng doesn't want to be in the limelight, he just wants to be a good consultant quietly, and then withdraw from the stage of Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau in a low-key manner.

The interpersonal relationships in Jinshan City are the most complex and the most complex.

At present, everything is good for Qiu Qilin, he has what he wants for himself, and both sides also have what the other side wants, and there is no direct conflict of interest, which is a natural alliance.

Liu Yifeng has great expectations for the Fleet Chamber of Commerce, one is that he hopes that they will have the ability to build ships, so that it will be much more convenient for them to build ships in the future. After all, at present, only the Maritime Safety Administration and the Navy jointly manage the Navy Headquarters in Dongshan Prefecture, and they have the ability to build ships.

The second is that he hopes that the fleet will discover new routes.

He still remembered that when he first met Qiu Qilin, his subordinate Wang Rui was about to open up a southern route with the Ming mainland.

At the beginning of the 17th century, there was only one route between the Americas and Asia, that is, the South America to Luzon route opened up by Magellan's round-the-world travel, with a total length of 10,000 kilometers.

After a hundred years of development in the 17th century, this route was later called the Manila sailing route by the later Franco. Using the many ocean currents around the Pacific Ocean, from Luzon South America, north to the New Franc Colony, and then south along the currents from the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere across the Pacific Ocean to the Southwest Pacific.

However, in this side of the world, this route is basically invalid, because Luzon, a strategic place at the other end of the route, is already a chicken rib for the Francois people.

Later generations of Frangifers desperately wanted to keep the colony of Luzon for more than 200 years, because it was their hand in Asia, which had never had the power to drive them out.

The world is different here, and the entire Southwest Pacific has been regarded as a forbidden territory by the Ming Dynasty.

Da Ming said politely "since ancient times", but he held a goose feather knife and a fire gun in his hand. Those who are obedient continue to do business, such as the Dutch. Those who are disobedient will directly drive out of the Southwest Pacific, such as the Franco.

Now the Francois feel more and more that it is necessary for Luzon to continue colonization, so the Manila sailing route will not develop in the future.

However, there is no Manila sailing route at the high latitude of the southern hemisphere, but there is a northern route from the high-latitude Liugui Prefecture of the northern hemisphere. The advantage of the northern route is that there are many anchoring points along the way, and it is not necessary for a large transoceanic ship to sail, and a medium lucky ship can also go, and it is a big deal to dock more.

But the disadvantage is also obvious, and that is cold.

Originally, Liugui Prefecture and Aoshan City were high latitudes, close to the Arctic Circle, and now it is the Xiaoice River period, resulting in this route only starting from late spring and before late autumn, and the window period is not long enough.

Liu Yifeng hopes that the Zheng family behind Wang Rui can discover Hawaii. As long as you can discover Hawaii and develop a clipper ship, the route from North America to the mainland of Daming can sail at will all year round.

Some people may think that this route is close to the equator, which must be very far. But counter-intuitive is that whether it is the southern Manila sailing route or the northern route, it is a sailing distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. And from North America to Hawaii, from Hawaii to Edo, it is also tens of thousands of kilometers.

The North American Hawaii Edo route is only more than the nearly 2,000-kilometer route from Edo to Hangzhou, and now Fuso is already the appearance of the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to worry about the distance between Fuso and the Ming mainland.

And there's no clipper yet.

He proposed that the clipper ship was intended to make the fastest ship in the era of sails that could be produced by the productivity of this era come out in advance. In this way, a new route to Hawaii can really be developed in the future, so that he can rely on clippers to connect his Los Angeles colony with Daming.

If you continue to take the northern route, there are Fuso, Liuguizhou, Jishan City, Jishan City and Jinshan City between your Los Angeles colony and the mainland, and one more city is equal to one more tariff, which is really not conducive to your future trade with the mainland.

Although he still doesn't know what he can trade with the mainland, he still instinctively proposed the concept of flying clippers, hoping to develop it with the back of Daming.