The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1417 Arrived in Quanzhou
Soon the Xuan family's merchant ships entered the boundary of Yangzhou.

"It's not a long way to Yangzhou Naval Camp now, Mr. Xuan, shall we go directly to Naval Camp?" Liu Renyuan asked.

Xuan Shijing shook his head: "No, let's find an ordinary port to stop first. You and I will take a carriage to the naval camp. Although the Xuan family's ship is only a merchant ship, if you don't board the ship, General Liu, you will know that it is An out-and-out merchant ship? From the outside, it looks like a warship. We don’t have a flag bearer on board, so we can’t communicate with the navy in advance. We can’t fight until this ship is close to the navy’s camp.”

In this day and age, traveling cannot be said to rely on walking, but communication is all about shouting. There is no standard-bearer when sailing on the sea, so whoever shouts is better.

Liu Renyuan nodded: "That's true."

Datang's army not only has scouts outside the camp on the ground, but also outside the naval camp. Unidentified ships are approaching the naval base. When the two meet, there is no semaphore, and the shouting can't make sense. They must fight up.

Xuan Shijing was more thoughtful.

The Xuan family's merchant ship was hoisting the flag of the Xuan family's caravan, and it stopped at the port of Yangzhou. There are many people in Yangzhou who have done business with the Xuan family's caravan, and they all recognize the flag of the Xuan family's caravan. There are ships carrying the flag of the Xuanjia Caravan.

With such a big ship, if the Xuanjia caravan was to carry goods from north to south, who could be against it?Is it possible that the Xuanjia caravan is going to extend its hand to the north-south water transport?
This is what the merchants at the port thought of when they saw the merchant ships of the Xuan family. One line has its own rules. Intervene forcefully, relying on the power and financial resources of the Xuan family, it is easy to swallow the meat of Water Transport, all these people are afraid, afraid that the Xuan family will reach out to grab the meat.

They also didn't expect that the Xuan family's layout was bigger, and they would not strengthen the Tang domestic water transport with them. The Xuan family set their sights on the sea, and even the future Maritime Silk Road.

As the Patriarch of the Xuan family, Xuan Shijing wanted to open up such a road paved with gold for Datang and the Xuan family.

After getting off the boat, they also hired two carriages at the local pier. It was still early, and the two headed directly to the navy camp in Yangzhou with their entourage.

Liu Renyuan is the general manager of the Yangzhou navy, and with the imperial decree of His Majesty Li Er, Xuan Shijing and Liu Renyuan are two people, one is in charge of the navy in Yangzhou, and Xuan Shijing is the governor of Quanzhou, which naturally includes Quanzhou's water resources. division.

In the carriage, Xuan Shijing looked at Liu Renyuan and asked, "General Liu, the situation of the navy in Quanzhou is not clear yet. You have always been in charge of the navy in Yangzhou. What is the situation in Yangzhou?"

"When fighting Goguryeo, the navy on the Yangzhou side was led northward by two generals in the navy. My father-in-law should know about this," Liu Renyuan said.

When Liu Renyuan mentioned this, Xuan Shijing remembered that when he was fighting Goguryeo and Baekje, the navy from Yangzhou set out from Yangzhou and went north to Liaodong to support Liu Rengui's navy. It was Liu Boying who led the navy from Run Xuan Shijing remembered this, but forgot that Liu Boying also belonged to the Yangzhou Naval Camp.

In this way, there is no doubt about the strength of the Yangzhou navy. From Runzhou to Liaodong, the navy that besieged Goguryeo, although it took the coast, it was also a long-term voyage. It had to go between Quanzhou and Ryukyu. Strait, no problem at all.

"In this case, to be on the safe side, the navy should start from Yangzhou to Quanzhou, and make other plans after arriving in Quanzhou." Xuan Shijing said.

"Okay." Liu Renyuan responded.

After the Tang Dynasty passed the Yangtze River, the further south it was, the more barren it became. At this time, the south had not yet been developed, and Xuan Shijing really didn't have much hope for Quanzhou.

It's just a waste of a great place and resources in the south. After all, the climate is there. From the Jiangyang area, it can be seen that even if the south is farming, the grain production is more than that in the north. Then, by virtue of the canal, the grain from the south is transported .

If the south can be further developed, Datang's economy will reach another level.

It's just that I don't have time to think about it now. What lies ahead is that the Yangzhou Navy is about to set off for Quanzhou.

Xuan Shijing and Liu Renyuan had discussed that it would take at most two days for the navy in Yangzhou to trigger the trigger. The supplies in the naval camp are fairly complete, as long as they move onto the ship and supplement some daily necessities. up.

Liu Renyuan and Xuan Shijing did not stay in Yangzhou city, but stayed in the naval camp, where there was land to live in, and it was not easy for the two of them to toss back and forth, so they boarded the ship again after two days.

This time getting on a boat is different from being in an inland river. It will take a while to get used to the turbulence of the fleet, and this period is the most difficult.

In fact, it was nothing to Xuan Shijing, Gao Jun, and Chang Le. It wasn't that they had never been on a sea boat. Unexpectedly, Liu Renyuan's followers seemed a little uncomfortable after boarding the boat.

Xuan Shijing and Liu Renyuan were on the navy's warship together, and the Xuan family's merchant ship had already sent a standard bearer to facilitate communication with the large army. The merchant ship followed the navy's fleet, Xuan Shi Jing can be regarded as a public weapon for private use, letting the navy's warships surround the Xuan family's merchant ships tightly, which can be regarded as protection. After all, if the Xuan family's merchant ships encounter naval battles, they really have no combat power at all. , except for close combat, the guards of the Xuan family have never been afraid of anyone.

From Yangzhou to Quanzhou, the turbulence on the sea did not exceed Xuan Shijing's expectations. It was just that he was in the cabin, and he was a little shaking when he was sleeping. He hadn't been on a boat for a long time, and he felt a little uncomfortable for a while. Once you get used to it, it's fine.

The voyage was smoother than Xuan Shijing imagined, it was almost smooth sailing, it seems that God gave this meal a meal.

The fleet sailed for about ten days and arrived in Quanzhou.

The navy camp in Quanzhou was even dilapidated than Xuan Shijing imagined. When Xuan Shijing walked into the commander's tent of the Quanzhou navy camp with the imperial decree, he was greeted with complaints from the commander of the navy.

"Xuan Gong, it's not that his subordinates are incompetent. You have seen the situation. It is true that the navy camp is like this, but the reason is hard to explain." As he said this, the somewhat aged naval commander also sighed. In Quanzhou, but he still paid attention to the affairs of the court, Xuan Shijing's name was very famous in the court, and he never thought that His Majesty would send this young man to the south.

(End of this chapter)