Rise of Another World: I Have an Empire System

Twenty miles outside Donghai City, there is an unnamed port.

"Who's coming?" After several hours of boring driving, the awning boat that Kang Lin and others took finally arrived at the destination. The weapon cemetery where the naval battalion of the Ming Army moored the "scrapped" ships, the deserted port!This desolate port, which is not marked on the map, has no heavily guarded military camps, towering forts and arrow towers, and no strong brick and earth walls around it. There are only farmland, ditches, old trees, and dirt roads. , a barking dog, a naked kid, an old trestle bridge that looks quite old, and dozens of simple earthen houses with yellow mud walls and thatched roofs, it's like, like a world away from home. Isolated Taoyuan Village!

That's right, Kang Lin and the others guessed right, this place really is a village, a village dominated by Xia people!The soldiers and masters of the Navy just took a fancy to the remoteness of this place, and no matter what they did, they would not be noticed by the Wei Li or the big shots in the mansion, so they transformed this small village with only about twenty families into a place for them to sell. A trading place for military resources and ships.In this place, as long as you can afford the money, you can buy anything, even the latest equipment of the Ming army, the Lumi blunderbuss, the Thunder blunderbuss, the large and small Flang machine, the Yegongshen blunderbuss, the Weiyuan cannon, and the Hongyi cannon. , double-decker warships, centipede boats, and brave battalion masters are also sold as they are. Who told the Ming court to default on their wages for nine months? If they don't sell their weapons and ships for dinner, is it possible to ask their wives, sisters, and daughters to come out to serve as half-closed doors to earn money to support the family?

Therefore, the battalion soldiers who have been suffering from arrears of payment will act more recklessly than the guards and flag soldiers. After all, they are not like the guards soldiers who have the banner fields to support their families. They are professional soldiers who are paid to fight and work hard. Once the salaries that depend on survival are robbed, it will have greater social destructive power than the peasant-like flag soldiers. Selling arms and ships are all light. Gold and silver, food and grass that can survive!

Faced with this situation, the general local government has nothing to do and no soldiers to move. They even have to worry about whether the rebels who have returned from looting will completely disperse and take their family members and relatives to join the Xia people, so as to strengthen the army. The fighting power of the remnant summer forces!According to the peace agreement between the Han and Xia tribes 200 years ago, the government of the Ming Dynasty, the army controlled the cities and towns, and had unquestionable judicial power, military power, diplomatic power, taxation power, and corvee power, while the Xia court survived Officials, the army, and the landlord forces in the Ming Dynasty were renamed by the Ming Dynasty, and they formed villages in remote areas in the name of chieftains, enjoying certain economic, political, and military privileges!Therefore, the Ming court was unwilling and did not dare to offend its basic military force too much. As long as these soldiers were not too much, most of the time they would choose to turn a blind eye and pretend they hadn't seen anything!

As a result, smuggling distribution centers like Zhujiawan appeared grandiosely!The low-ranking officers of the battalion colluded with local powerful people, and took advantage of the general trend of Ming and Xia confrontation to sell weapons and warships in places that were difficult to reach by the Ming Dynasty's law, regardless of whether these things would fall into the hands of lawless people. Come to attack the towns of Ming Dynasty, they only care about how much money they can earn, and how much production materials they can exchange for the money they earn!

Therefore, Qiao Si, the unscrupulous businessman of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, brought the rich man Kang Lin here!However, their luck seemed to be a little bit bad. As soon as they got close to the simple pier in Zhujiawan, they were spotted by the secret sentry placed outside by the battalion soldiers. A few thin men dressed in civilian clothes jumped out from that corner , all of them held waist knives and short crossbows in their hands. Even the bushy beard couldn't stop the vigilant look on their faces. The shortest man in the lead took a step forward and pointed the waist knives in his hands at Wu Peng. "This is an important military location. If there is nothing wrong, please leave quickly!"

"Hehehe! Are they the brothers under Mr. Hao? Please inform him that Chinan's old friend is visiting, so he must take the time to see him!" Looking at Fu Lujun with a vigilant expression on his face, Qiao Si, the shopkeeper He signaled the valet to lift the bamboo curtain on the boat canopy, and without getting up, he just clapped his hands outside, startling the short man in the head into a cold sweat!Because he knew the person saluting, it was Qiao Si, the big shopkeeper of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Qiao, a big man who was polite even to his own boss and Mr. Qian. , It's simply the old birthday star who is impatient to eat arsenic!

"It turned out to be Uncle Qiao, sorry for my poor eyesight, I didn't see it was your old man just now, come, come, come, please sit here for a while, the little one will send someone to report to the general manager! You, you, and You, why are you so stupid, why don't you hurry up and set up a springboard for Uncle Qiao, and let him go ashore!" Thinking of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce and the power behind them, the leader of the Volunteer Army did not dare to neglect at all, while sending out his legs and feet The subordinates I gave ran back to the village and reported to the battalion soldiers who stayed there; at the same time, I instructed the rest of the subordinates to lay the springboard, so that Qiao Si and his party could go ashore to rest more easily and decently.Wanting to get on the line of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, the veteran leader who took the opportunity to gain some benefits for himself even offered his own sleeping blankets to the shopkeeper Qiao, so as to save this delicate person from the big city. The mud was stained on the ground, which affected the next mood.

"Then I'll take care of you!" Seeing the politeness of the leader of the Fulu Army, Qiao Si nodded, and with the help of the servant, he slowly got off the black boat, while his ally, Kang At this moment, Lin and the leader of Kangda followed him step by step, and came in front of a group of ambush troops.Next, in order to reward these guys for their knowledge of current affairs and advance and retreat, the rich and powerful shopkeeper Qiao casually threw out a one-two-weight silver ladle, and their leader, the short man with a waist knife in his hand, looked at his eyebrows. If you don't see it, reach out and follow it!He is not a sour old man, he feels that there will be some psychological burden to accept the food that is so cheap. On the contrary, this guy who has been deducted by the court for several months can't wait for someone to throw a few silver coins to insult him every day!

"Captain, Chief, please invite the general manager, and the treasurer Qiao, the treasurer Qiao to the conference hall to talk..." Not long after, the Fu Lujun who went to report was panting and took the general manager. The order came back, but the result was not as expected by Kang and Qiao. Knowing the Donghai Chamber of Commerce and the power behind it, Mr. General also did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly sent his own soldiers to follow the Fu Lu army to welcome the arrival of the rich man. , this guy previously asked Qiao Si to be a middleman and helped him dispose of a batch of weapons and ships. It seems that the shopkeeper Qiao found the right owner and brought him to him!

"Okay, brother, please lead the way!" After drinking tea and taking a break, and Kang Lin was in a hurry to see the warship, Qiao Si could only stand on the horse. Get up, and quickly walk into the village controlled by the battalion with the general's personal soldiers!Looking at the bumpy dirt road, the low yellow mud thatched huts, the weedy fields, and a group of ragged, disheveled old and weak women and children, the shopkeeper Qiao, who was a little bit obsessed with cleanliness, couldn't help frowning, while the leader leading the way The battalion also seemed to have sensed something was wrong, so they immediately waved away the Xia people surrounding them, and brought Kang, Qiao, and their entourage to a courtyard surrounded by green bricks, where the battalion The general manager Hao Datong is waiting for them!

"Hahaha, let me tell you why I kept hearing magpies calling this morning. It turned out that Brother Qiao, the distinguished guest, is here. Come, come, don't stand at the door, please come in, please come in. The younger brother has ordered the kitchen to prepare thin wine , let's talk while eating..." Before seeing him, he heard his voice first. Here, Kang and Qiao walked into the small courtyard with green bricks and black tiles with their entourage, when they heard a burst of cheerfulness coming from inside. Then a thirty-year-old man in red cotton armor without a hat came out from the back room quickly with two soldiers.

"No, no, Boss Hao, I won't drink wine today, Qiao will introduce someone to you, maybe I can do the work you entrusted to me..." Looking at the smiling Hao Datong, Boss Hao, Qiao Si just bowed to him casually, and it was regarded as a greeting, and then, this fellow brought Kang Lin in front of Hao Datong, and introduced emphatically, "Kang Lin, the shopkeeper of Kang Da, the person in charge of the Chiyang Business Conference, he It can help you solve some ship problems, as long as the price you offer is fair enough!"

"Fair, fair, absolutely fair, 130 taels of silver for each of the 200 bird boats, 270 taels of silver for the [-] cabin boats, [-] taels of silver for the [-] boats... Brother Qiao, Brother Kang, take a look, At this price, where do you go to find such high-quality and cheap goods?" Hearing Qiao Si say that this unattractive fat man surnamed Kang can solve his distressing problems, Hao Datong and Hao Bazong immediately felt as if they had beaten a chicken. Like blood, he rushed to Kang Lin's side, immediately started the buying and selling mode, and strongly recommended the ship he had in hand.

"Wait, the quality of the ship, the price, you can't just listen to your side of the story, take us to have a look, if you like it, my brother will buy five or six of him, let you This guy makes a small fortune!" Seeing Guo Datong talking non-stop, Qiao Si was afraid that this guy would steal his agency fee, so he changed the topic and asked him to take a few of himself to the berth. Go everywhere to see the quality of the boats to decide how many boats to buy next.

"It's easy to say, easy to say, since the guests have requests, let Hao Mou come, brother, I will take you to see the best and excellent warships of our Ming Dynasty!" Knowing that Kang Lin intends to buy a ship, Hao Datong is very generous He agreed to Qiao Si's request to watch the boat, and then led them to the small river behind the village, where more than ten sailboats eliminated by the battalion were moored, including bird boats, sand boats, haicangs, sentinel boats, and even There is also an iron wood wide ship transferred from the south!

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