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During the symposium last night, Zhu Dawen, who was to be deputy supervisor of Tianjin Customs, raised a question.

It is that merchants from various countries are worried that if they do not do business with the local Thirteen Banks in Guangdong, their merchant ships will be attacked by the armed forces of the Guangdong local government, or that the Thirteen Banks will collaborate with the Dutch to harass their merchant ships.

"If such a situation occurs, it will be difficult for businessmen from various countries to protect themselves. This may cause businessmen from various countries to be unwilling to trade with my country in Tianjin."

Zhu Dawen's worries were justified, because most of the businessmen he recruited were foreign businessmen without official backgrounds. The only one with official backgrounds was the French East India Company, but this company is currently incapable of confronting the Dutch.

That is to say, the international trade group that came to Tianjin this time could not rely on their own strength to guarantee the safety of their fleet passing through the southern part of the empire.

So why is it possible that the local regimes in the south of the Tatar Empire will oppose their government?

Of course it was because of the news that had already reached Macao that civil strife was taking place in the Tartar Empire.

Merchants from various countries have reason to suspect that the government of the Tatar Empire may not be able to call on its remote southern local government. No matter how willing they are to trade with the central government of the empire, as long as the governor in the south of the empire disagrees, they will not dare to act rashly.

Merchants, just ask for money.

It's just a question of earning more and earning less, and there is no need to risk your life for it.

In this regard, Jia Liu made three measures.

He ordered the imperial minister Shuan Zhu, who was in charge of the copywriting work of the imperial camp, to immediately draft an order to Li Shiyao, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and asked him to submit to the capital immediately, otherwise he would be punished for treason.

"In addition, I sent Li Shiyao's younger brother, Li Fengyao, to Guangdong to persuade his brother not to be obsessed with his obsession. If he can take the lead in the reform, I will reward Li Shiyao and give the Li family a hereditary first-class earl."

Duke, Marquis, and Bo are super-grade titles. If you have to compare them, the earl corresponds to the clan's Dorobelle. If you inherit a first-class uncle, the gold content is higher.

Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Liangdong, Zheng Zuanxu, Ma Siwen, Xian Guoan, Zhou Quanbin, Wang Zhiding, Zhang Tingyu, Huang Tinggui, etc., have been conferred uncles by Han people, but there are no more than a dozen people.

Even Li Shiyao's grandfather, Li Yongfang, was no more than a second-class uncle.

Therefore, Jia Liu's hereditary first-class uncle to Li Shiyao can definitely be regarded as a generous reward.

It is definitely very open and bright.

".Tell Li Fengyao that his elder brother can consider it, but he must not destroy the commercial trade opened by the imperial court in the north. Otherwise, I will kill all the men, women and children of the Li family, and dig out their ancestor Li Yongfang to burn his bones and ashes!"

Jia Liu is not threatening, but will really do this.

10,000+ Lao Man told him to kill and let go, do you still care about a fake Man Er Da family?

Li Shiyao is really ignorant, and will definitely inspire the executioner attributes of the Six Emperors.

Of course, it is definitely impossible to speak the original words directly to Li Fengyao, and the person who sent the message must express it in a tactful way.

The second is to write to Wuchang, requesting Wuchang to dispatch troops to Jiangxi and Hunan to form military pressure on the Guangdong green battalion.

Make sure that Li Shiyao dare not send troops to harass the merchant ships easily. As long as he dares to move, Jia Liu will not hesitate to risk the Guangdong and Guangxi areas falling into Wuchang.

The third is that you need to be hard on your own to forge iron.

It is urgent to build a powerful navy!

For this reason, Jia Liu specially received the Beiyang Navy delegation headed by Zamur in the morning.

The predecessor of the Beiyang Navy was the Dagukou Navy. It currently has more than 3000 soldiers and more than [-] warships.

Whether it is the scale of troops or the quantity and quality of warships, the Beiyang navy is much worse than other coastal navy.

But the mental outlook and combat effectiveness have been greatly improved.

It is mainly due to the large-scale military training campaign initiated by Jia Liu himself in the navy.

Asiha, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, had reported the basic situation of the Qingshui Division to His Majesty the Emperor. Currently, the Qing Coastal Defense is mainly in charge of the Eight Banners Navy and the Green Camp Navy.

The Eight Banners Navy is divided into two branches inside and outside the pass. The Eight Banners Navy outside the pass is mainly stationed in Heilongjiang, Mergen, Jilin and other places.

During the Battle of Yaksa that year, the battalions of the Eight Banners Navy outside the Guanwai were mainly responsible for the transportation of grain and grass, ensuring that the army besieging Yaksa would not run out of food, other than that, it was useless.

The Guannei Eight Banners Navy has a total strength of more than 1. Due to its small number, it mainly plays a supervisory role in coastal defense and has little effect in actual combat.

The Eight Banners navy in Tianjin was abolished by Jialiu long ago, and now there are two Eight Banners navy located in Jingkou (Zhenjiang), Zhapu (Hangzhou), Fuzhou and Guangzhou.

Therefore, the Lvying Navy is the main force of the Qing Dynasty's coastal defense, mainly in the four provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, with a total force of 10 and more than 700 large and small warships.

At present, except for Jiangsu Lvying Navy which nominally obeys the central government of the reformation court, the navy of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces should belong to "local armed forces" for various reasons.

Among them, the Fujian Lvying Navy was severely damaged by the Black Banner Army led by Yang Yuchun, and is now unable to go to sea to fight, and is huddled in the coastal areas of Fujian.

The Zhejiang Lvying Navy was also attacked by the Black Banner Army in the First Battle of Dinghai. Although the main force is still there, due to the serious thinking of avoiding war and fear of war, coupled with the discord between the Zhejiang governor and the Hangzhou general, the Zhejiang Lvying Navy is now like a No one cares about children without parents.

Only the Guangdong Navy is now well preserved, and it is regarded as the most powerful maritime combat force in the Qing Dynasty. According to the data of the Ministry of War, the Guangdong Navy has more than 200 people and more than [-] large and small gunboats.

As for the Jiangsu Navy, Jia Liuyi combined the Jiangsu Navy and the Tianjin Navy in the name of the imperial court, and also transferred some local naval forces of a similar security nature along the northern coast to reorganize them into the Beiyang Navy.

The naval division headquarters is located in Qingdao in the coastal area of ​​​​Shandong.

The navies of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces plan to reorganize with the navies under Yang Yuchun's command into the Nanyang Navy, and the naval bases will be located in Xiamen, Fujian or the coastal areas of Guangdong.

Therefore, Lao Ji, who is familiar with the work of the United Front, has secretly dispatched candidates to the south to carry out the work of instigating rebellion against civil and military officials in the three provinces, including the navy.

It may take a few months for this instigation and wooing to see results.

"You have to prepare, the Navy will expand to 2 people within half a year."

After Zamur and the others arrived, Jia Liu directly stated that the imperial court wanted to expand the Beiyang Navy, and proposed six methods of "training troops, simplifying equipment, building ships, raising wages, employing people, and lasting".

Needless to say about military training, Jian Qi naturally eliminates the navy's original weapons that do not meet the trend of the times, and asks the Ministry of Industry to build more copper and iron guns for the navy.

For shipbuilding, the Beiyang Shipyard was established in Tianjin to imitate the three-masted gunboats of Western countries on a large scale, and to produce ironclad ships.

It is not a warship made of all iron, but a thick iron armor on the outside of the wooden warship to resist attacks. It may be more appropriate to call it an armored ship.

Since there is no steam engine, the current ironclad ships are all driven by manpower and cannot continue to sail for a long time, but they are extremely fast in short-distance sprints, and they are invincible in offshore operations.

After the steam engine is developed, the ironclad ship can be turned into a battleship without manpower.

In my impression, Britain and France did not have armored ships driven by steam engines until decades later, and then they sailed to China, which shocked the soldiers and civilians of the Qing Dynasty.

It means that the ship is strong and the gun is sharp.

Everything has a development process. Western countries have experienced decades from the birth, improvement, and civilian use of steam engines to military use.

Jia Liu moved this time forward, because he didn't need decades to prove something that was bound to appear.

The steam engine already existed, the steel industry also existed, and the concept of the ironclad ship also existed, so Jia Liu only needed to piece together the existing hardware like a musical tailor.

No need to prove, no need to explore.

This is the benefit of the traverser.

To put it bluntly, the six emperors are not great manufacturers and developers, nor are they pioneers in technology, but just a second-hand dealer who put together and assembled.

A typical application of borrowing doctrine.

It is optimistically estimated that China's navy will be fully equipped with ironclad ships in ten years' time.

Conservative estimate, up to 15 years.

If everything goes in a good direction and goes well, Jia Liu thinks that on his [-]th birthday, he should be sitting on a black-smoky ironclad ship, overlooking the great old revolutionary base on the beach of Normandy.

What a wonderful era, when a few hundred cannons were set up on the coast, and the old districts could be shocked and succumbed.

Just thinking about it makes me happy.

For this wonderful era of empire, Jia Liu personally wrote a letter to the navy after the talks with the navy - "Building a powerful royal navy is in line with the development trend of the empire."

At the same time, he wrote a note to his confidant, the admiral of the Beiyang Navy Zamur - "The Royal Navy only obeys me and my descendants, and this point cannot be changed for 100 years."