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"Eight million taels of silver, daydreaming!"

A merchant ship flying the Liang family's flag slowly left the dock. ReadМ

At the bow of the ship, Liang Song looked in the direction of the restaurant.

Lu Zheng guessed correctly. This time the Liang family took the initiative to find Wufeng Island. Spending so much money to burn King Yan's warship was a strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

Although for the artillery, the Liang family was unwilling to offend King Yan on the surface.

But how could the Liang family just allow King Yan's merchant ships to go to sea privately?

At the same time, Wufengdao has been lying on his Liang family's body like a blood-sucking insect over the years, sucking blood.

How could the Liang family not be angry after taking away nearly half of the Liang family's profits?

The only reason why they are still enduring Wufeng Island is that the Liang family's navy may not be able to defeat Lu Zheng.

What's more, Japan is still secretly supporting Wufeng Island.

But even if Wufeng Island could not be wiped out, the Liang family had had enough of handing over huge profits to Lu Zheng, a pirate.

This time is a contest between the Liang family and Wufeng Island. Even if they can't kill Lu Zheng, they still have to get at least 30% of the profits back.

The confidence was the cannon built by King Yan for the Liang family.

As long as these artillery pieces are on board, they will force Wufeng Island to make concessions.

"It's just a pity that King Yan's warships were not burned." Liang Song looked regretful.

All the children of the Liang family lived an extremely prosperous life relying on sea trade.

Wufeng Island had already offended them. Now that King Yan is participating in sea trade, wouldn't it mean that they are offended again?

No one from the Liang family could tolerate this.

But Wufeng Island failed this time, and King Yan would definitely be vigilant. It would be difficult to burn the warship again.

Thinking of this, he frowned.

Now, the merchant ships will go to Jinling Pier.

He will discuss these matters with the head of the family.

Five days later, the merchant ship entered Jiujiang from the sea and arrived at Jinling City in another day.

Boarding the Jinling Pier, Liang Song headed towards Liang Mansion.

At this moment, Liang Kai was enjoying the cool under the willow tree in the yard, and seemed to be in a very comfortable mood.

"Master, Lu Zheng wants our Liang family to compensate him eight million taels of silver." Liang Song entered the yard and relayed Lu Zheng's words to Liang Kai.

"This bastard of thieves really wants money like crazy. For eight million taels, my Liang family won't even give him a single tael of silver." Liang Kai stood up angrily.

King Yan's warships are in good condition, and because of this incident, it is said that Fan Yang's interrogation is now very strict.

Obviously it aroused King Yan's vigilance.

"It's just that Lu Zheng threatened that if he didn't give it, he would rob the Liang family's merchant ship again." Liang Song said.

Liang Kai was silent. After a while, he said: "Indeed, now is not the time to fall out with Lu Zheng. If we delay it for a while, when we have three hundred artillery pieces, we will give Lu Zheng some color."

So far, King Yan has only delivered 109 artillery pieces to the Liang family, which is still far from this number, but it should be able to reach 300 pieces a year ago.

"Just tell him that there is too much money and our Liang family needs to prepare." Liang Kai added.

Liang Song nodded, this was also his idea.

Then he asked: "What about King Yan's battleship?"

"We can't count on the Shanghai pirates for this matter. King Yan must be cautious now, but because of this incident King Yan and Lu Zheng have become enemies, which is wonderful." Liang Kai smiled softly, feeling extremely proud, "If It would be even better if Wufeng Island can plunder the coast of Yanzhou."

He was very proud of his plan to kill two birds with one stone.

In his heart, he laughed at Zhao Xu for being tricked by him and had to sell artillery to him.

But he didn't know that the artillery sold to him by Zhao Xu was of inferior quality.

The two families are just cheating on each other.

After a pause, he continued: "The emperor has ordered a crusade against Xiliang. There will be chaos in the north soon. There may be a chance to take advantage of the chaos. Remember, you must stay calm. Look, something happened to the third prince this time. , doesn’t the fifth prince have a chance to become the prince? Hahaha..."

In the past, the Liang family could only tolerate Dou Wei for the sake of sea trade.

But in his heart, he always believed that the Liang family was the most powerful family in Dasong.

The Liang family's accumulation in maritime trade over the years was terrifying even to him.

Zhezhou, Minzhou, and Shenzhou are even under the control of his Liang family.

If the Liang family hadn't been repeatedly bullied by pirates, Francois, and Britons at sea, and had to rely on Da Song, he wouldn't have to bow to Dou Wei.

There is no need to please Emperor Zhao Heng everywhere.

Every Liang family member has this vision in their hearts, that their navy can travel across the sea and control maritime trade.

This time I wronged myself and got artillery for this purpose.

He wanted to use King Yan's artillery to defeat Lu Zheng, defeat the Stedan people, force them to hand over the artillery casting method, and then get rid of King Yan's artillery.

In this way, the Liang family will no longer have anything to fear.

Liang Song had been in Zhezhou. He didn't know about the third prince yet, so he looked confused when he heard it.

Until Liang Kai explained it to him, the two of them laughed together.

"This royal family is really embarrassed. I didn't expect that a eunuch prince would appear. I'm afraid there has never been such an embarrassment since ancient times." Liang Song laughed.

"No, otherwise why would the emperor want to conquer Xiliang for the first time? However, this has nothing to do with our Liang family. I refused the matter on the pretext of the Southeast Hainan pirates causing trouble." Liang Kai thought for a while, "But Dou Wei and the emperor are not giving up yet. , In this way, you go back to Zhezhou to make some noise, find some people to pretend to be pirates, and capture a few counties. "

"Yes, I understand." Liang Song was familiar with this matter and smiled slightly.

…

Yancheng.

For six or seven days, the people and merchants in the city often saw a huge ball flying in the sky.

This caused intense discussion throughout Yancheng.

There are even more ignorant people who kneel on the ground and pray constantly whenever the giant ball flies over, thinking that it is a parade of gods.

Seeing that things were getting more and more outrageous, Zhao Xu had people release the news, telling the people that this was a hot air balloon, an artifact prepared by the Department of War.

This settled the matter.

However, the merchants and people of Yancheng became more and more in awe of King Yan.

"His Royal Highness, King Yan, is really amazing. Now you can create things that fly in the sky."

In a tea shed outside Yancheng, several people drinking tea saw the hot air balloon floating past again and were amazed.

"Of course it's great, otherwise would you and I be able to sit in the tea shop and drink tea leisurely today?" another commoner said.

Since King Yan took charge of Yanzhou, the number of merchants in Yancheng increased.

Needless to say, there are shops in Yancheng. There are various kinds of sheds everywhere from Yancheng city wall to three miles outside.

There are people drinking tea, selling snacks, and snacks in this shed.

Best of all, every shed is filled to the brim.

One season's harvest, plus paving roads for the palace and building bridges, made the people's pockets bulge unconsciously.

The tattered clothes on my body were replaced with new ones, and I also had spare money to drink tea and wine and order some side dishes.

While the people were chatting, the height of the hot air balloon slowly decreased, and finally landed on an open space in the east of the city.

At this time, Wang Chong jumped down from the hot air balloon, looking satisfied.

"Your Highness, how about this time?" Wang Chong looked at King Yan who was waiting aside.

After improving the hot air balloon according to King Yan's instructions, he practiced operating it every day.

Today I finally took off from this point and returned here again.

However, due to the wind direction, he took a big detour.

"Pretty good." Zhao Xu nodded lightly.

He just asked Wang Chong to change the burning basin of the hot air balloon into the shape of a barrel. At the same time, he made a hole in the side of the barrel and inserted an iron plate. By twitching the iron plate, he could control the size of the flame.

Another issue was fuel. He asked Wang Chong to replace the straw and use carbon powder mixed with vegetable oil to replace the original fuel.

Toner burns slowly and vegetable oil burns quickly. A mixture of the two burns neither fast nor slow, which is just right.

Wang Chong laughed twice, and then he said: "Your Highness, do you know what you want this hot air balloon to be used for?"

"Really?" Zhao Xu stood with his hands behind his hands, "Tell me about it."

"To detect the enemy's situation, this combined with the telescope can really see the enemy." Wang Chong said with a smile.

"Well, not bad, what else is there?" Zhao Xu continued to ask.

Wang Chong scratched his head and couldn't think of anything else, "Is there any other way to use it?"

"Of course, but I won't tell you now." Zhao Xu looked at the hot air balloon, "I will arrange some soldiers for you, and you will teach them how to control the hot air balloon, and also make nine more for use."

He still attaches great importance to the hot air balloon. Since Wang Chong made it by mistake, he must use it to its maximum effect.

After all, the only man-made object that can fly in the sky in this era is a hot air balloon.

In Dasong, it is unique to Yanzhou.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Wang Chong said loudly.

He saw the excitement in King Yan's eyes.

From this point of view, his hot air balloon is really of great use.

This time he finally felt balanced and was not overwhelmed by Qu Sheng.