Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"After we repel Yang Zhengshan, we will send an army to siege Xingyue Island. If they know each other, they should surrender obediently!" Hou Fangjin said gritting his teeth.

Wen Qing frowned, "Our purpose is not to destroy Xingyue Island."

Hou Fangjin smiled, stroked his long beard and said, "It's not about destroying Xingyue Island, but about let Xingyue Island understand our strength!"

"If they don't have a clear understanding, they will definitely feel unwilling to accept it in the future!"

"So in order to make them surrender completely, we must come to Xingyue Island. If we can, we'd better take away some of the merchant ships in Xingyue Island!"

"Thus can they be willing to be driven by us!"

Wen Qing thought about it and felt it was right.

If a powerful force wants to surrender, you must bring out the power they cannot resist.

"Well, I will dispatch the navy to the north as soon as possible. It will take about ten days, and 20,000 naval forces can reach the nearby waters!"

Although the Tarot Dynasty is not strong, it is still a dynasty with a population of more than 10 million.

Moreover, the Tarot Dynasty was an island country, and the most elite army was the navy.

With the strength of the Tarot Dynasty, even 100,000 naval troops could get it together, but they also had enemies that needed to be prepared for. They could not deploy the entire army and could only mobilize 20,000 naval troops for an expedition.

"The navy is just second, the key is the innate warrior! I wonder when Mr. Xiang will arrive?" Hou Fangjin asked.

Although he was unwilling to increase his ambitions and destroy his majesty, he knew that Yang Zhengshan's strength was difficult to fight against Yang Zhengshan with the strength of their Shenmu Sect alone, so they needed the top powerhouses of the Tarot Dynasty.

The name of Mr. Xiang he mentioned was Xiang Anxu, who was the strongest innate warrior of the Tarot Dynasty and a famous sword god in the surrounding seas.

This Wanli Sea is not an imaginary number, but refers to the length from the southeastern sea of ​​Darong to the storm sea, which is about ten thousand miles long.

It includes twelve dynasties of all sizes and thirty-four island forces.

Those who can be called island forces must have innate warriors, otherwise they are not qualified to be placed on the table.

Adjacent to the Wanli Sea, the east is the storm sea, the west is the Gala Sea, and the north is the Darong East China Sea, which can also be called the North Dion Sea. There are fewer islands in that sea area and almost no power.

As for the south, there is another huge land, with many dynasties and dynasties on it.

The southeastern waters of Darong are thousands of miles, but the southeastern waters of Darong are just some islands and dynasties in the southeastern waters of Darong.

In Darong, the Lu Sheng Dynasty was already the most powerful dynasty in the southeastern waters, but in the Wanli Seas, the Lu Sheng Dynasty was just a younger brother.

There are many powerful forces in the Wanli Sea, and each of these forces is not as good as Darong, but if you look at them as a whole, your strength is far greater than Darong, especially in terms of the number of innate warriors, it is four or five times that of Darong. .

Xiang Anxu was able to gain a great reputation in the thousands of miles of seas, which shows how powerful he is.

Wen Qing smiled and said, "Mr. Xiang has arrived, right on my boat, but Mr. Xiang doesn't like the excitement, so he has never got off the boat!"

It’s not that Xiang Anxu doesn’t like the excitement, he just doesn’t like the group of divine guys who are talking to the gods of the Shenmu Sect.

"That's good, that's good, haha, Brother Wen, please have tea!" Hou Fangjin said with a smile.

"No more drinks, the important thing is, I have to mobilize troops. Naturally, the faster the better!" Wen Qing stood up and said.

When Hou Fangjin heard this, he stopped trying to keep him and said with a smile: "Then I'll give it to Brother Wen!"

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On Xingyue Island, the atmosphere of the New Year has not yet dissipated, and the people are still immersed in the joy of the New Year, but the Yang family business and the navy have taken action.

The first thing to take action was the Yang Family Store. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the fleets that came back to celebrate the New Year set sail one after another.

The East is blocked by Shenmu Island, and all the eastern fleets have suspended their sailing to the east, and have instead followed the western fleet to purchase various materials such as grain, grass, medicinal materials, etc.

The western fleet should continue to trade. The logistics supply of the army is enough to have nine fleets in the east.

This is the first time that the Yang family launched a large-scale war after occupying Xingyue Island.

In the past, at most, I just used my own navy from Xingyue Island. This time I wanted to bring Tenglong Guard to cause trouble. The show was so great that I would not have encircled the Xingyue Gate.

Then the action was the navy of Xingyue Island. Two thousand navy troops had already cruised in the waters east of Xingyue Island, intercepting all passing ships.

On the blue sea, the Star Moon Navy turned into four fleets to patrol the surrounding sea.

The Star Moon Navy has two thousand soldiers, divided into two thousand generals, four generals, and twenty generals.

Each company always has a big blessing ship, two Haicang ships, and more than a dozen small eagle ships and clutches.

Unlike the Tenglong Guard, although the Tenglong Guard Navy has replaced many warships in recent years, they still retain a large number of small ships to deal with naval battles in different situations.

The Star Moon Navy has basically given up on small combat ships, and most of the small ships they carry are logistics ships and communication ships.

Therefore, the main combat power of the Xingyue Navy lies in the Dafu ship and the two Haicang ships.

Four navy fleets were enough to block the surrounding waters of 300 miles.

The blockade of Xingyue Island has a huge impact on Shenmu Island. The fleets going to the East for trade are not only the merchant ships of Xingyue Island and Tenglongwei, but also many fleets from Darong, Lisheng Dynasty, Desheng Dynasty, and Lusheng Dynasty.

If these fleets want to go to the East for trade, they need to pass through the route north of Xingyue Island, and then go east along the route to enter the waters of Shenmu Island, and then go to the waters of Longdan Dynasty.

Although Shenmu Island also conducts some maritime trade, their main income comes from collecting tolls and port berthing fees.

Now that Xingyue Island has closed the route, all ships cannot go to the waters of Shenmu Island, Shenmu Island can no longer collect tolls, and Guiyun Island Port has become depressed.

At the same time, a large number of sea vessels have been squeezed into the North Ring Island Port.

There is no way, merchant ships cannot pass through, and can only dock at North Ring Island to wait for the route to pass.

As the largest port of Xingyue Island to the outside world, the facilities of North Ring Island Port are still very complete.

There are not only several restaurants and inns in the port, but also many shops opened by merchants from all over the world.

Xingyue Island has four ring islands, and the other three are mainly for farming. Only the North Ring Island is a prosperous commercial area.

Xingyue Island also collects tolls and ship docking fees, but the fees are much less than Shenmu Island.

However, the blockade of the route still affects the business of many sea merchants, so there is a commotion on the North Ring Island at this time.

Sato Qian is a sea merchant from the Desheng Dynasty.

Speaking of the sea trade of the Desheng Dynasty is actually quite nonsense.

When Tenglongwei first developed sea trade, it first opened a trade route with the Desheng Dynasty, but at that time Tenglongwei only cooperated with a daimyo of the Desheng Dynasty.

The cooperation between the two sides was very pleasant. The daimyo continued to grow and develop with the benefits of sea trade, and then was targeted by the shogun of the Desheng Dynasty.

As a result, the daimyo was placed under house arrest, and the sea trade between Tenglongwei and Desheng Dynasty ended. The Shogunate imposed a sea ban, prohibiting any merchant ships from going out to sea and any foreign merchant ships from entering.

Therefore, the sea trade between Tenglongwei and Desheng Dynasty stopped for three years.

Later, the Tenglongwei Navy became stronger, and Yu Tonghai took the Tenglongwei Navy to the port of the capital of Desheng Dynasty for several rounds, forcing the Shogunate to open sea trade.

However, at that time, the Shogunate only selected one port for trade, and all trade had to be led by the Shogunate.

Yu Tonghai could not really attack the Desheng Dynasty. After all, the Desheng Dynasty was still a vassal state of Dayong in name, but this vassal state had some double-five attributes.

The Shogunate restricted the scope and trade volume of sea trade, but smuggling within the Desheng Dynasty became more and more rampant.

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Then, until a few years ago, the Shogun's government once again implemented a strict maritime ban, cracked down on smuggling, destroyed many smuggling ships, and killed many sea merchants.

They even intercepted the fleet of the Yang Family Merchants, killed more than 200 of the more than 400 guards and navy officers on the ship, and finally more than 100 were captured by them to mine.

The Desheng Dynasty did this extremely secretly, and it took the Yang Family Merchants and Tenglong Guards two years to find out.

The result was that the Xingyue Navy patrolled the waters near the Desheng Dynasty for more than a year.

Didn't you not allow ships to go out to sea for trade?

Well, I will help you ban the sea, and anyone who dares to go out to sea will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

With the help of the Xingyue Navy, all the tens of thousands of navy officers of the Desheng Dynasty were thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

In the end, the Shogun's government had no choice but to sign a city-surrendering alliance with Xingyue Island, allowing the merchant ships of the Yang Family Merchants and Tenglong Guards to trade in all ports of the Desheng Dynasty.

In the following years, the maritime trade of the Desheng Dynasty developed, and countless sea merchants emerged, following the fleets of the Yang Family Company and the Tenglong Guard to go out to sea for trade.

The consequence was that the strength of many daimyo in the coastal areas of the Desheng Dynasty became stronger and stronger, and the control of the Shogunate over the Desheng Dynasty fell to the lowest point.

A big fight began within the Desheng Dynasty. At first, the coastal daimyo fought against the Shogunate, and later the Shogunate united with the inland daimyo to fight against the coastal daimyo.

Now, the Shogunate can only live in the capital with a few younger brothers, and those coastal daimyo have begun to fight internally again.

Sato Ken is a sea merchant from Satsuma. Satsuma is now the most powerful lord territory of the Desheng Dynasty. Sato Ken is not only a sea merchant, he is also a confidant of Satsuma daimyo Shimazu Qishan, and can also be understood as Shimazu Qishan's sea merchant agent.

Sato Ken's main responsibility is to help the daimyo Shimazu Qishan manage the business in Beihuan Island, and also to represent Shimazu Qishan to establish a good relationship with Xingyue Island.

At this time, Sato Qian stood on the street outside the North Ring Island Port, looking at the noisy sea merchants with a frown.

The route was blocked, and their Satsuma clan’s fleet could not pass. Just now, several sea merchants from Satsuma clan came to him and wanted him to ask the people of Xingyue Island about the situation.

To be honest, Sato Qian was a proud person. He was very reluctant to deal with the people of Xingyue Island, because they had no confidence when facing the people of Xingyue Island, and they had to be humble whether speaking or doing things.

But he had to do what those sea merchants asked, because the interests of those sea merchants were the interests of his master Shimazu Qishan.

His duty here was to have a good relationship with Xingyue Island and deal with the conflicts and troubles between their Satsuma clan and Xingyue Island.

The trouble in front of him was his duty.

Sato Ken sighed, and finally walked towards the government office of Beihuan Island with a rather helpless look.

The government office of Beihuan Island is the same as that of Xingyue Island, with one councilor and one military officer, similar to the organization of the county government.

However, the main responsibility of the Beihuan Island government office is to manage the port, and the main source of finance is also the port's ship berthing fees, tolls and commercial taxes on the island.

As for the land tax, Beihuan Island is originally small, and the port and town have been built. The farmland is less than 10,000 acres, and the annual land tax is not as much as the port's ship berthing fees for one month.

The councilor of Beihuan Island is Yang Jide. Just by looking at the name, you can tell that he is a descendant of the Yang family, the great-grandson of Yang Zhengshan.

However, Yang Jide is already 25 or 26 years old this year, and his grandfather is none other than Yang Mingwu.

Although Yang Mingwu did not come to Xingyue Island, he sent all his two sons, four grandsons and three granddaughters to Xingyue Island, and only brought his eldest son with him, and this eldest son also stayed in Xingyue Island for five years.

At this time, Yang Jide was also in a state of panic. The route was blocked, and it was not only Shenmu Island that was affected, but also a lot of troubles appeared on the Beihuan Island.

"Sir, Sato Qian from Satsuma Domain wants to see you!"

"Let him wait!" Yang Jide said impatiently.

Now he couldn't take care of the people from Satsuma Domain. He had to deal with the sea merchants from Dayong alone.

You should know that the sea merchants from Dayong have a thousand connections with the Yang family or Tenglongwei. If they didn't have this relationship, they wouldn't dare to sail thousands of miles to Beihuan Island.

But since there is a relationship, Xingyue Island will naturally take care of it. It can't ignore these partners.

Yang Jide first went to the teahouse to meet the steward of the Xue family. The Xue family is the Xue family of Haichang Bo Xue Chang'an, which is the in-law of the Yang family.

Then he went to meet the captain of the Zhu family. This Zhu family is not the Zhu family of Dihuo Island, but the Zhu family of Anshun Bo Zhu Rong, who is also the in-law of the Yang family.

The Anshun Marquis' Mansion had no maritime business before, but after boarding the Yang family's ship, the Anshun Marquis' Mansion began to prosper.

At first, they only provided goods for the Yang family's business, and later began to get involved in maritime trade.

However, their scale is relatively small. It took ten years to put together a fleet, and as a result, this fleet is now stuck in Beihuan Island.

If the fleet of the Anshun Marquis' Mansion is stuck for a year or two, it will still have a great impact on the Anshun Marquis' Mansion.

After all, the Anshun Marquis' Mansion is not like the Haichang Marquis' Mansion. The Haichang Marquis' Mansion has been engaged in maritime trade for more than 20 years and has long been rich. Even if it suffers some losses, it can afford it.

But the Anshun Marquis' Mansion is still small and can't stand the toss.