Outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, hundreds of giant ships set sail together, covering the sky and the sun, across the sea, like a long dragon in the mixed river!

In this era, even if it is postponed for three hundred years, it will not be possible to assemble such a powerful sailor, and these ships, for the Great Zhou, are just a drop in the ocean, if the imperial court is willing, it can gather thousands of ships at any time and send 100,000 navies.

But in Ye Hua's heart, the weight of this fleet is heavier, because they are dominated by the merchants of the Great Zhou. Businessmen want to make money, and it is said that rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest, but many businessmen are born lazy rabbits.

They only like to take low-hanging fruit, and the more they are their own, the more unscrupulous they are. And the businessmen that Ye Hua hopes should be a group of vicious wolves, a group of wolves who are desperately biting and devouring outside, bringing the fat flesh back to the Great Zhou and nourishing the people of the Great Zhou.

The merchants only took a small step, Ye Hua did not hesitate to encourage, in the escort fleet, there were two special warships, these two ships did not have the necessary sails, some were just black chimneys!

Ironclad ships!

There are only two ships, but they represent the strength and majesty of the Great Zhou!

In particular, the guns on the sides and the bow of the ship were even more terrifying, and the sailors of the Great Zhou Dynasty began their unscrupulous journey. Two warships cleaved the waves in front of them, moving forward.

The monstrous waves could not help these two sturdy ships, and the merchant ships following the ironclad ships were very comfortable, and even undisturbed.

Perhaps this was the first time they clearly felt that Da Zhou was so powerful!

The flotilla went all the way south, and the lads of the navy were not idle, and as they passed by Liuqiu, they approached the harbor and fired more than two dozen cannons, and the fire burned down a forest.

For the Navy, this is just an ordinary exercise.

But for the natives living by the sea, the sky is falling apart, the sun and the moon are gone, and it is almost the end of the world.

They knelt on the ground in fear and kept kowtowing, begging Thor's forgiveness.

When the artillery fire passed, they trembled, drove the deer, and paid tribute to the kingdom!

In a gesture, an island almost the size of two-thirds of Zhejiang Road was included in the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The businessmen were dumbfounded, is this the expansion of territory? It's even easier than drinking cold water!

The flotilla continued to sail south, and the flotilla in the direction of Luzon had long been waiting for them.

Liu Chuang was very generous, and gave them a full ten boatloads of grain, fruits, rice wine, and various supplies.

Once again, the merchants were stunned by the abundance of the foreign countries...... Precious southern pearls, precious spices, rare animal skins...... Things that are worth a thousand gold in Da Zhou are everywhere here, and they are stacked casually on the beach.

Primeval jungle, tall straight wood, standing quietly!

Ten zhang high, three people can hold the giant wood, take back Da Zhou, all of them are the best materials, a piece of wood 10,000 taels! Not to mention the gold, silver and copper mines, endless paddy fields...... Many businessmen even wanted to stay in Luzon.

However, they also know that Luzon is just a "small island", and it cannot be compared with Tianzhu at all! After a brief exchange, they continued on their way.

Along the way, the navy fired artillery everywhere, and they were like lions swearing their territory, and everywhere they went, they had to make a movement to remind those natives that the Celestial Empire was coming!

Aside from Annan, which has been incorporated into the Great Zhou, what Zhancheng, Zhenla, and Nibo have not escaped the poison of the navy...... Everywhere they went, the natives who were still dressed in leaves trembled and crawled on the ground to welcome the arrival of the kingdom.

Occasionally, some eyes were not opened, and an army of thousands of people was organized, screaming and screaming, rushing towards the navy, and soon, it was swallowed up by artillery fire, and on the navy's logbook, there was only one more line of words...... A certain tribe, disobeying the king, the kingdom crusaded with heavenly soldiers, subdued the military might, was willing to pay tribute and submit, bathed in the holy grace, and was grateful.

As for the small book of the locals, it is written like this: The Great Zhou Dynasty was arrogant and unreasonable, destroyed countless countries along the way, cruel and easy to kill, and the heavens were angry and people resented......

No matter how the two sides recorded, the merchants of Jinling were eye-opening, there were too many good things overseas, and they even passed through an archipelago rich in spices, spice plants of incalculable value, all over the island, and the eyes of the merchants were green!

They also passed by some small islands that looked bare and had nothing, but when they got closer, they realized that the islands were covered with a thick layer of guano!

This is a transit point for seabirds on their migratory journey, and it took thousands of years to form an island covered with guano!

Where is guano, it is the best fertilizer at all!

If this is shipped back to Da Zhou, what a lot of money!

A few of the merchants, ignoring the stench, climbed the island, set up a banner on it, stood in the wind, surrounded by guano, and at this moment they laughed like fat men of two hundred pounds.

Leaving the spice islands, leaving the guano islands, and through the narrow strait, they finally entered the Indian Ocean, and Tianzhu was close at hand.

Xu Shiling was gearing up and waiting on the dock urgently.

I thought the court had forgotten about him!

It's a fleet!

Ooh!

That's a lot!

Five hundred merchant ships, as well as a large number of warships, filled the docks, not to mention that there were many ships waiting in the open sea. Xu Shiling was overjoyed, and yelled at his subordinates: "Move quickly, you useless lazy people!" ”

In Xu Shiling's hand, he carried a whip and whipped it at those swarthy Tianzhu people, and no one could escape his whipping.

Xu Shiling also tried to change the management style, he wanted to motivate the Tianzhu people to do more work.

But when he paid the incentive salary, the next day, those damn guys didn't come to work, they made enough money to eat for a day, and when the money was spent, it was not too late to earn again!

Xu Shiling's nose was crooked!

After staying in Tianzhu for a long time, he also adapted.

It's too warm here, and the products are abundant, although life is not very good, but many Tianzhu people don't understand what it means to be hungry and cold...... They also don't have the concept of storage, vegetables and fruits, which grow all year round, and don't have to put in too much labor.

And the hot temperature made them confused, and their brains were not clear.

So don't talk with money, it's just a whip that works!

Draw out!

Pump hard!

Densely packed with porters, like worker ants...... Unload the goods brought by merchant ships onto the docks.

Soon, you can see the hills rising from the ground.

Silk, fine cloth, porcelain, tea, ironware, building materials...... Looking at these things, Xu Shiling couldn't stop talking!

"Great!"

That's all he's been waiting for!

"I want all your goods!"

The businessmen were taken aback, "General Xu, can you eat everything?" That's a lot of money! ”

Xu Shiling smiled, "I don't have any money!" ”

The merchant was taken aback, there was no money!

Does he want to rob?

Xu Shiling laughed and said: "But I have land, there are people!" ”

The merchants were puzzled, "What does the general mean?" ”

"It's not simple, relying on these materials, I can provoke a war, and those stupid Tianzhu people will attack each other! Look at it! ”

When he arrived at his own territory, Xu Shiling didn't care whether the merchants agreed or not, he went straight to it...... In the past few years, Xu Shiling has raised a lot of lackeys who can speak well, and he will scatter them, and with heavy gifts, he will go to sow discord and incite war.

The merchants didn't know what Xu Shiling was doing, so they could only drink and feast every day and enjoy singing and dancing performances...... Most of the women in Tianzhu are very dark, but some of the high-caste ones are quite fair-skinned, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the Great Zhou. The merchants basically lived a fairy life as a groom every day.

Almost a month later, the merchants were called out of the city...... A simple fence, surrounded by black and oppressed captives, numbered tens of thousands of people.

Xu Shiling casually pointed to a bunch of captives, "See, a hundred pieces of silk in exchange!" ”

How dare a businessman believe his ears!

How much?

One hundred horses!

There are not ten thousand, there are eight thousand!

This is a living person!

How is it cheaper than cows, horses and livestock!

Xu Shiling said it three times, and they were sure of it, and immediately someone's mind came alive, "That General Xu, how about I sell five hundred horses?" ”

Xu Shiling glanced at him, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, these things are in very poor health and very lazy, so it's useless to transport them back!" ”

The merchant shook his head again and again, "General Xu, the villain won't hide it from you, it didn't work in the past, but now we have a steam engine ship!" ”

"Steamship?"

"That's right!" The merchant said with confidence: "It will take less than a month to bring these slaves back, and even if they are not strong enough, they will not die." In Liaodong, we have many large farms, all of which use tractors to plough the land, sell these people, and it is always no problem to plant and harvest. The general thinks about it, a cow costs ten taels of silver! A big living person, as long as one or two, is there still no one to buy? ”

Xu Shiling was stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled, "Okay, great!" ”

He said to his brothers, "Since someone wants it, even if it is their blessing, what are they doing in a daze...... Wait for this bunch of waste to hit the road! ”

The businessmen were so frightened that they changed their faces and hit the road? It's going to be a knife!

They had guessed correctly, and they saw the soldiers take the captives one by one, tie them to the shelves, tear off the only white cloth, and then all at once!

The heart-rending screams made the businessmen turn pale with fright, and they couldn't help but cover their little brother.

"General Xu, this, isn't this too ruthless?"

Xu Shiling snorted and sneered: "What do you know, you have to thank me for being cut!" Anyway, they can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law in this life, and if they can go to Liaodong, they can be regarded as getting out of the sea of suffering, so what's not satisfied! ”

Not to mention, these captives stayed in Tianzhu, that is, the life of coolies, in just a few years, Xu Shiling has built a strong city wall, many fortresses, under each fortress, there are mountains of white bones buried!

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