Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"Lord Yang, it's not that I'm unreasonable, it's just that I have no other choice. Our fleet has 100,000 taels of silver worth of goods. If we keep pushing them down, I really can't explain to the Lord!" Zhu Zhen, the captain of Anshun Marquis's Mansion, said with a distressed look.

"Ah~" Yang Jide sighed faintly, this matter is really difficult to deal with.

"It's not that I don't want you to go, but even if you go, you may be intercepted by Shenmu Island, and then your loss will be even greater!"

Zhu Zhen also understood this truth, but he really had no choice. The goods worth 100,000 taels of silver were not affordable for their Anshun Marquis' Mansion.

"Then can we dispose of the goods nearby and pay some silver!"

Yang Jide thought for a while and asked, "What are the goods on your ship?"

"Silk cloth, tea, porcelain, rice paper, glass, and some ink, jade and the like. These goods are popular goods in the Longdan Dynasty." Zhu Zhen said.

There are so many specialties in Darong that any of them can bring huge profits if shipped to the sea for trade.

Take the ink for example. The small ink is inconspicuous. In Darong, even the top-grade ink is only worth a few taels of silver per box. But as long as it is shipped to the Longdan Dynasty, their ink can become a luxury item, and a box can be sold for more than ten taels of silver.

Although the market for ink is small, it has several times the profit, so it is still worth taking some with you.

Yang Jide was a little scratching his head. These things can't be sold at a high price near Xingyue Island, because there is no shortage of goods from Darong near Xingyue Island.

Just when Yang Jide was worried, an official came to report: "Sir, the official document sent by the general office!"

Yang Jide hurriedly took the official document and read it.

After reading it, he laughed, "Manager Zhu, there is a way to solve the problem. We want all your goods!"

"Really!" Zhu Zhen was overjoyed.

"Well, but the price is not high. We will increase it by 20% based on your purchase price! You probably won't make much money, but you won't lose money either!" Yang Jide said.

Zhu Zhen was not disappointed, but said with gratitude: "Thank you, Lord Yang, thank you so much."

Yang Jide smiled and said: "We are all in-laws, so there is no need to thank you. The route here will definitely be blocked for a while. You can go back first. When the route is opened, we will send someone to notify you!"

Tenglongwei and the Yang family cannot monopolize all maritime trade, and there is no need. They need more fleets. Although these fleets cannot bring huge profits to Xingyue Island, they can bring prosperity and continuous income to Beihuan Island.

Therefore, Xingyue Island will not exclude anyone from passing through Beihuan Island. As long as they abide by the rules of Beihuan Island, all sea merchants passing through Beihuan Island are guests of Xingyue Island.

The route blockade is a problem of Xingyue Island, which has caused losses to many sea merchants. Xingyue Island naturally has to make some compensation.

The compensation is that Xingyue Island buys all the goods so that these sea merchants will not lose all their money.

Of course, Xingyue Island will not suffer any loss. These goods are durable and will not go bad even if they are stored for one or two years. After the war with Shenmu Island is over, these goods can be shipped to Longdan Dynasty and sold.

Xingyue Island only pays the storage cost and the cost of the backlog of goods. However, Xingyue Island is a big family with a large business, and the backlog of millions of taels of goods is not a problem at all.

With the instructions of the general office, Yang Jide quickly appeased all the sea merchants from Dayong. As for the sea merchants from other places, sorry, the treatment will be slightly reduced, and they can only be given 10% of the profit.

But even so, when Sato Qian left the government office, he was still full of joy.

Although it was only 10% of the profit, it was enough for him to give an explanation to those sea merchants from Satsuma.

…

Tenglongwei, Tenglong City.

The so-called Tenglong City is the original Tenglong Vanguard's acropolis, but now the Tenglong Four Guards are no longer a simple guard post, but the Darong Beihai Navy.

The Xingdusi Yamen and the Beihai Navy General were added above the Tenglong Four Guards. Now Yu Tonghai's official position is the Right Dudu of the Navy Dudu Mansion, and the Admiral General of the Beihai Navy, which is a serious first-class official.

Xue Ping served as the commander of the Xingdusi, a second-class official, and also served as the guerrilla general of the front army navy camp.

The general setting is similar to that of the border army. The Tenglong Four Guards are also divided into five camps, front, back, left, right, and center, similar to the town standard camp of the border army.

Of course, the Tenglong Four Guards still retain the organization of the guard post and the organization of the soldiers.

The newly organized five-camp navy is similar to the camp soldiers, but it is a camp soldier unique to the Tenglong Four Guards.

The reason for this reorganization is that Yu Tonghai wants to expand the strength of the Tenglong Four Guards.

According to the organization of the four Tenglong guards, there are only 22,400 soldiers at most, but if the five-battalion navy is newly organized, the Beihai Navy can increase 20,000 battalions of soldiers.

That is to say, the current Tenglong Guard has more than 40,000 navy.

However, its main force is still the newly organized five-battalion navy, and those guard soldiers can only be regarded as the reserve soldiers of the navy.

Yang Zhengshan said that the Tenglong Guard has 20,000 navy, which refers to the newly organized five-battalion navy. He did not count the soldiers of the Tenglong Guard at all.

Now the General Army Office and the Xingdusi Office of the Beihai Navy are both in Tenglong City. Outside the city is a busy port, and inside the city are bustling streets.

Yu Tonghai was sitting in the study in the General Army Office, looking at the letter brought by the Yang Family Business.

"General, are you looking for me?" Xue Ping walked into the study and asked.

Yu Tonghai nodded, "Sit down and say!"

Xue Ping is not polite either. They have been partners for thirty years and have long been familiar with each other so they can't be familiar with each other anymore. There is no need to say those polite words.

Seeing that his face was a little serious, Xue Ping asked, "What happened?"

Yu Tonghai shook his head slightly, "It's not a big deal. The old marquis wrote to him that Xingyue Island was going to attack Shenmu Island, so we would send 10,000 navy troops to support him!"

"Oh! Then when will the troops be sent?" Xue Ping said without thinking.

Since it was Yang Zhengshan's speech, they naturally had no reason to refuse.

Although Yang Zhengshan has been away from Tenglong Guard for more than 20 years, the soldiers of Tenglong Guard have changed a lot, but the relationship between Tenglong Guard and the Yang family is getting closer.

Tens of thousands of military households in Tenglong Guard, basically all have relatives living on Xingyue Island or working in the Yang Family Business.

For example, Yu Tonghai, Xue Ping and other generals, the elderly went to Xingyue Island to retire, and the young people would also send their children to Xingyue Island for practice.

It is definitely not an exaggeration to say that Tenglongwei and Xingyue Island are as close as one family.

"That's what I think. Since the old marquis is preparing to fight against Shenmu Island, he will definitely completely occupy the Seven Islands of Shenmu Islands!"

"If Xingyue Island occupies the seven islands of Shenmu, it will definitely require a large population to enrich those islands. It's just right for our Tenglong Guard to separate. This time we will just arrange more past."

Yu Tonghai said.

Fifteen years ago, Tenglong Guard arranged two thousand teenagers to go to Xingyue Island. It was because the population of Tenglong Guards grew too fast at that time, which forced Yu Tonghai to have no choice but to select a group of teenagers to send them to Xingyue Island. .

Now that there is almost another generation born and another generation, the population of the Tenglong Guards has reached a point of overcrowding again, even more serious than fifteen years ago.

The reason why there was no conflict between people and land in the military households of the Tenglong Guards was that they were rich enough that they all became landlords. They purchased a large amount of land in the surrounding prefectures and counties to support more children and grandchildren.

But the problem is that the situation in Liaodong in recent years is generally stable, and the population of Liaodong is also growing rapidly. Even if Chongshan Town continues to migrate from Liaodong, Liaoyuan and Pingyuan's population is still far more than before, even compared with Liaodong in the past. There will be more before the drought.

Now Chongshan Town no longer needs to continue to migrate its population to the north, and the population of Liaodong is still growing, and the population growth rate of Tenglong four guards is particularly high.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the price of fields in Liaodong is rising, and the price of grain in Liaodong is also growing. If this trend continues, in another ten years, the grain harvested in Liaodong may not be able to meet the needs of the people of Liaodong.

To put it simply, Liaodong will have a lot of people and little land in the future.

Yu Tonghai had long been concerned about this issue, so he had been considering moving the people of Tenglongwei and Liaodong to other places.

If the three provinces of Longyuan have settled down, they can move there.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

But the problem is that the three provinces in Longyuan are now in chaos, and moving the people of Liaodong is harming the people of Liaodong.

It just so happened that Xingyue Island was going to capture Shenmu Island, and the opportunity was rare, so Yu Tonghai thought of moving some of the military households and people of Tenglong Guard.

Xue Ping thought for a while and said, "This is a good idea. Our Tenglong Guard now has 23,000 military households and 64,000 households in the public. To be honest, it should have moved out long ago."

Military households can be divided, and after the military households are separated, they can become military households or farmers.

The specific number of military households or farmers depends on whether the number of military households in the garrison is full.

There are 5,600 households in a guard. If the number of military households is not satisfied, then they will naturally be military households after the separation.

But if the number of military households is full, then the ones who are divided will be farmers.

However, most of the garrisons in Darong are now dissatisfied with the establishment, so there is almost no situation when military households become farmers after they are separated. This is the case in Tenglong Guard, and even Chongshan Town does not have this situation. Because Chongshan Town has expanded several garrisons.

When Yang Zhengshan was in Tenglong Guard, the four Tenglong Guards had only more than 22,000 military households, which was in full mail.

But it has been almost thirty years since this. The military households have reproduced from generation to generation, one has become three, three has become nine, and then the four Tenglong Guards have emerged, and the farmers are three times the result of the military households.

This is a good thing, which shows that Tenglongwei has been in a stable development state in the past 30 years, and there has been no large number of deaths due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.

"Well, this time you personally lead the team to Xingyue Island to obey the old marquis' orders, and just talk about this matter to the old marquis." Yu Tonghai said.

"Then how many soldiers I will bring here?" Xue Ping asked.

Yu Tonghai thought for a while and said, "The old marquis said it only costs 10,000, but we can't just go 10,000. This way, you lead the three battalions in front, middle and back, and then draw 3,000 soldiers from each of the four guards to gather two. Five thousand people."

Now the Beihai Navy and Tenglong Guard are the most in short supply of naval soldiers and warships.

Although the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the garrison is far inferior to that of the Fifth Battalion Navy, those soldiers can definitely be called elite places elsewhere.

Xue Ping grinned, "Okay! I'll go and prepare and set off in two days!"

"Well! Take my eldest grandson over by the way. His second uncle is on Xingyue Island. Just hand him over to his second uncle at that time!" Yu Tonghai said.

"clear!"

Xue Ping responded with a smile.

...

Five hundred miles southeast of Xingyue Island, a huge ship was sailing fast with full sails.

On the bow deck sat an old man in a short jacket and shorts, wearing a straw hat, lying on a rocking chair, with a parasol made of oil paper on his head, and two beautiful maids beside him making tea and fanning him.

Although the old man was gray-haired, his face was ruddy, with almost no wrinkles, and he looked extremely handsome, with sharp cheeks and a straight nose. Not to mention when he was young, even now, he is still a handsome guy.

He lay in the rocking chair, swaying slightly, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

That comfortable look was enough to make countless people envious.

"Master, there is a sea eagle delivering a message!" A tall and long man came over holding a three-foot-long bald eagle and said.

The old man opened his eyes and glanced at the bald eagle, "Bring it here!"

The man immediately took a bamboo tube from the eagle's leg and handed it to the old man.

The sea eagle, also known as the flying slave eagle, is a domesticated bird that can be used for communication. It is a bit like a carrier pigeon, but carrier pigeons cannot communicate at sea, but flying slave eagles can.

The flying slave eagle not only has the ability to sense changes in the magnetic field, but also has the ability to record the magnetic field of various places.

It can remember the magnetic fields of more than ten target locations and go to the exact target location according to specific requirements.

It can recognize many patterns and can accurately lock the pattern at high altitudes.

When it is needed to send a message, the number of the target sea area can be told to it, and then it will fly to the target sea area. The target sea area may be within a range of hundreds of miles, and the target ship is within this range. It will search for the target in this sea area regularly.

As long as the target ship is in this sea area and hangs a preset flag, it will eventually find the target ship.

Of course, if the target sea area is too large, it will take longer to search.

So in general, the target sea area is within a hundred miles, and it can search the sea area within a hundred miles within one day.

The advantage of the flying slave eagle is that it can find the target ship in the vast sea, and the disadvantage is that the messenger must know the route and general location of the target ship.

This disadvantage is not a disadvantage. Compared with sending ships to search in the vast sea, the flying slave eagle has an unparalleled advantage in sending messages.

Of course, training the flying slave eagle is also a technical job. Most forces in the Wanli Sea do not have this technology.

Even Yang Zhengshan has only heard of the existence of the flying slave eagle and has never actually seen a flying slave eagle.