After he seized Sri Lanka, it would not only become a front line to intercept Western infiltration, but also a trading base! Liu Haojia would organize maritime merchants to transport the goods of the Ming Dynasty here to trade with the West and the Arabs. And the ships of the West will be able to buy goods from the East when they arrive here, and they will lose the desire to continue to move eastward, so that Southeast Asia and Australia will be completely locked up, and there will be enough time to digest them slowly. Look at the book

As for the other plan, it was to organize an expedition to the east, and the goal was North and South America! Liu Haojia wants to set up a foothold and gradually immigrate before the white people completely develop the Americas, so that the Westerners will develop in the eastern part of the Americas, and the Ming Dynasty will develop in the western part of the Americas, and the two sides will go hand in hand, so that the white monopoly of the Americas can be completely prevented!

Liu Haojia felt that when Westerners were developing the Americas in a disorderly manner, they carried out planned development by themselves, and the efficiency was much higher than theirs! In particular, he also feels that he has another advantage, that is, the advantage of skin color! At present, the natives of North and South America are all yellow people, and they can make a fuss about this! However, this is only a long-term idea, and it needs to be realized step by step.

At the same time, Liu Hao's family also made many secret arrangements, for example, he made a lot of preparations for the three major expeditions of the Ming Dynasty. These three major campaigns were the Battle of Ningxia, the Battle of Korea and the Battle of Banju.

Since the Battle of Korea was invaded by foreign enemies, Liu Haojia really couldn't intervene, so he just put a group of spies under the Li family. As for Ningxia and Banzhou, he focuses on monitoring, but there are differences.

The Battle of Ningxia was a rebellion, so the focus was on planting men under him. When the time comes, it will play a decisive role. The Battle of Banshu involved a rebellion of ethnic minorities. Because of the xenophobia of their ethnicity, it is also difficult for him to intervene. So he focused on mapping. At least having a detailed map when the fight starts in the future is better than having two eyes in the dark!

At the same time, Liansheng has also made great progress there! Not to mention anything else, just say that Liansheng Bank, which was developed from Beijing and was originally developed to receive taxes from Beijing, has now developed into a behemoth connecting the north and the south!

Liu Haojia took advantage of the fact that everyone now has little understanding of the role of banks and began to vigorously promote the expansion of banks! Now in every province of Daming, at least one Liansheng Bank can be ensured!

Now the remote cashing silver bills issued by Liansheng Bank are called "passes" by businessmen and officials, and they can be circulated everywhere in the whole Ming Dynasty! This alone makes Liansheng Bank soft on handling fees! Not to mention that the outlets of various banks also have investment loans and other means, and the silver is really pouring in!

However, he has adopted another way for Liansheng's other businesses, that is, to maintain his existing business while keeping a low profile as much as possible! Because the traffic and communication of the Ming Dynasty are limited by the times, it is unacceptably slow! This has also caused a lot of trouble in management, so he is now more of a low-key expansion by investing in shares! After all, all dynasties and dynasties have the custom of killing New Year's pigs, and Liu Haojia doesn't want to be targeted!

All in all, in the past two years, Liu Haojia can be said to be in power, giving orders to all directions, and laying an extremely solid foundation for the expansion of the imperial court and his own family! And he actually managed to keep a low profile in this situation, making outsiders feel that the Liu family seemed to have stopped moving forward.

This also made the civilian officials of the DPRK and China breathe a sigh of relief! A person who has financial resources, military strength, and is still in a high position has too much pressure on them! If it weren't for the stagnation of the Liu family, the civil officials led by Zhang Juzheng would have found a way to dismantle the Liu family a long time ago! But what they didn't expect at all was that Liu Haojia took advantage of the current inconvenient communication situation and put on a camouflage coat for himself!

But Liu Haojia has not been without troubles in the past few years! His first trouble is that low-cost salt is advancing slowly north of the Yangtze River!

In fact, Liu Haojia's low-cost salt is advancing very quickly north of the Yellow River! Taking Jingshi as an example, the price of salt in Jingshi has reached 30 yuan a catty that has not been seen in previous dynasties! This made the people of Jingshi extremely praised it!

But once you cross the Yellow River and advance towards the Yangtze River, it becomes difficult! The main reason is that the salt merchants have already formed a group and launched a sniper attack on him!

Because once the Yellow River crossed, it basically belonged to the Central Plains, close to the south, and the power of these salt merchants became stronger! In order to resist Liu Haojia's low-priced salt, they did everything they could!

In addition to buying officials to cover and instruct ruffians to make trouble, they also sacrificed a killer feature, that is, salt lords of all sizes, who are active in various places!

These salt barons used to live on private salt, and although they were not a unified organization, they also had a strict distribution system and distribution areas, and they all knew each other. And because selling illicit salt is a capital offense, these salt barons are often extremely fierce, and even dare to go to war with officers and soldiers! Especially when the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more slack, many powerful salt lords do not take the official army in their eyes at all!

The salt barons know one thing very well, and that is that the entry of low-cost salt is their end! Only when the price of official salt is high, can their private salt be sold, and they can make huge profits! That's why they hate cheap salt!

And the salt merchants are even more so for low-cost salt! These salt merchants have controlled the salt industry for several generations, and their families are simply like mountains of gold and silver, and at the same time, there is a large amount of silver flowing into them every year, how can they be willing to lose all this in front of them!

So the two sides soon colluded together, the salt merchants contributed money and advice, and the salt barons contributed their efforts to make a bloody and stubborn resistance to the low-priced salt entering their area! Therefore, for a time, there were frequent reports of ships carrying salt sinking somewhere, warehouses storing salt being burned, salt shops being besieged, and even caravans transporting salt being attacked!

And these salt lords are ruthless, causing a lot of casualties! For a while, the number of merchants who were willing to participate in it shrank greatly, which greatly hindered the promotion of low-cost salt!

Faced with this situation, Liu Haojia is not without a way! He even used the identity of the commander of the Jinyi Guard to send a message to various officials, asking them to cooperate, and arresting the salt owl! However, the magistrates in various places have long been fed by the salt merchants, and they have the handle in the hands of the people who receive the people's money, so they naturally dare not go against the people!