Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 385

[Chapter 385]

“Eight million taels of silver, daydreaming!”

A merchant ship flying the Liang family’s flag slowly sailed away from the pier.

At the bow, Liang Song looked in the direction of the restaurant.

Lu Zheng guessed right, this time the Liang family took the initiative to find Wufeng Island, and spending so much money to burn King Yan’s battleship is a strategy that kills two birds with one stone.

Even though it was for the artillery, the Liang family was unwilling to offend King Yan on the surface.

But how could their Liang family just allow King Yan’s merchant ship to go to sea without permission.

At the same time, Wufengdao has been lying on the Liang family’s body to suck blood like a vampire these years.

Taking nearly half of the Liang family’s profits, how could the Liang family not be angry?

The only reason they are still enduring Wufeng Island is that the Liang family’s navy may not be able to defeat Lu Zheng.

What’s more, Japan is still secretly supporting Wufeng Island.

But even if Wufeng Island couldn’t be wiped out, the Liang family had endured enough to hand over the huge profits to Lu Zheng, a pirate.

This time was a contest between their Liang family and Wufeng Island. Even if they couldn’t destroy Lu Zheng, they would at least get back another 30% of the profits.

And confidence is the artillery that King Yan built for the Liang family.

As long as these cannons are on board, they will force Wufeng Island to make concessions.

“It’s just a pity that King Yan’s warship was not burned.” Liang Song looked regretful.

The children of the Liang family all rely on sea trade to live a very prosperous life.

Wufeng Island already scraped them off one layer, and now that King Yan is participating in the maritime trade, wouldn’t it scrape them off again.

No child of the Liang family could tolerate this.

But Wufeng Island failed this time, King Yan will definitely be vigilant, and it will be difficult to burn the warship again.

Thinking of this, he frowned.

Now, the merchant ship will go to Jinling Wharf.

He wants to discuss these matters with the Patriarch.

Five days later, the merchant ship entered Jiujiang from the sea, and arrived at the city of Jinling in another day.

After boarding the Jinling Wharf, Liang Song headed for the Liang Mansion.

At this moment, Liang Kai was enjoying the coolness under the willow tree in the yard, and seemed to be in a very comfortable mood.

“Patriarch, Lu Zheng wants our Liang family to compensate him eight million taels of silver.” Liang Song entered the courtyard and relayed Lu Zheng’s words to Liang Kai.

“This thief king is really crazy about money, eight million taels, and my Liang family won’t give even one tael of silver.” Liang stood up angrily.

King Yan’s warship is fine, and because of this, it is said that Fan Yang’s investigation is very strict now.

Obviously aroused the vigilance of King Yan.

“It’s just that Lu Zheng threatened that if he didn’t give it, he might rob the Liang family’s merchant ships again.” Liang Song said.

Liang Kai was silent, and after a while, he said: “Indeed, now is not the time to quarrel with Lu Zheng, just wait a little longer, and when we have 300 cannons, we will show Lu Zheng some color.

” So far, the King of Yan has only delivered 109 cannons to the Liang family, which is still far from this number, but it should reach 300 a year ago.

“Just tell him that there is too much money, and our Liang family needs to prepare.” Liang Kai added.

Liang Song nodded, this was also his idea.

Then he said: “What about King Yan’s battleship?”

“You can’t count on the pirates in this matter. King Yan must be careful and careful now, but because of this matter, King Yan and Lu Zheng have a feud, which is wonderful.” Liang Liang Kai laughed lightly, extremely proud, “It would be even better if Wufeng Island could plunder the coast of Yanzhou again.”

He was very proud of his plan of killing two birds with one stone.

He laughed in his heart that Zhao Xu was framed by him and had to sell him artillery.

It’s just that he didn’t know that the artillery that Zhao Xu sold him was the worst.

The two are just cheating on each other.

After a pause, he continued: “The emperor ordered a crusade against Xiliang, and soon there will be great chaos in the north, and there may be a chance to take advantage of the chaos to make trouble. Remember, you must be calm. See, something happened to the third prince this time. , won’t the fifth prince have a chance to be the prince? Hahaha…”

In the past, the Liang family could only tolerate Dou Wei for the sake of maritime trade.

But in his heart, he always thought that the Liang family was the most powerful family in Dasong.

Even he finds the Liang family’s accumulation in sea trade over the years terrifying.

Zhejiang Province, Minzhou, and Shenzhou are even under the control of his Liang family.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Liang’s family was repeatedly bullied by pirates, Frenchmen, and Britons at sea, and had to rely on Da Song, he wouldn’t have bowed to Dou Wei at all.

There is no need to please Emperor Zhao Heng everywhere.

Every Liang family has such a vision in their hearts, their navy can cross the sea and control the sea trade.

This time I wronged myself and exchanged for artillery for this purpose.

He wanted to use King Yan’s cannon to defeat Lu Zheng and the Sterdan people, forcing them to hand over their cannon casting method, and then get rid of King Yan’s cannon.

In this way, the Liang family will no longer have anything to fear.

Liang Song has been in Zhejiang Province all the time, he still doesn’t know about the third prince, so he looks confused.

Until Liang Kai explained to him, the two immediately laughed together.

“The royal family is really ashamed. I didn’t expect that there would be a prince eunuch. I’m afraid there has never been such an embarrassing thing since ancient times.” Liang Song laughed.

“No, otherwise, why would the emperor want to attack Xiliang for the first time, but this has nothing to do with our Liang family. I refused the matter on the pretext of the southeast pirates making trouble.” Liang Kai thought for a while, “But Dou Wei and the emperor are still not giving up. , In this way, you go back to Zhejiang Province to make some noise, find some people to pretend to be pirates, and capture several counties.”

“Yes, I understand.” Liang Song was familiar with this matter, and smiled slightly.

…

Yancheng.

For six or seven days, people and merchants in the city often saw a huge ball flying in the sky.

This aroused fierce discussions throughout Yancheng.

Even more ignorant people knelt on the ground and kept praying whenever the giant ball flew over, thinking that it was a parade of gods.

Seeing that things were getting more and more outrageous, Zhao Xu asked people to release the news, telling the people that this was a hot air balloon, and it was a utensil prepared by the Military Commander.

That’s how the matter settled down.

However, the merchants and common people in Yancheng became more and more in awe of King Yan.

“His Royal Highness King Yan is really amazing. Now things that fly in the sky can be made.” In

a tea shed outside Yan City, several people drinking tea saw the hot air balloon passing by again, and they were amazed.

“Of course it’s amazing, otherwise, can you and I sit in the tea shop and drink tea leisurely today?” Another commoner said.

Since King Yan took charge of Yanzhou, there have been more merchants in Yancheng.

Not to mention the shops in Yancheng, all kinds of sheds can be seen everywhere from the city wall of Yancheng to the three miles outside.

There are tea drinkers, snack sellers, and snacks in this shed.

Best of all, every shed is filled to the brim.

With one season’s harvest, plus paving the road for the palace and building bridges, the pockets of the common people swelled unknowingly.

The ragged clothes on his body were replaced with new ones, and he had spare money to drink tea and wine, and ordered a side dish.

While the people were chatting, the height of the hot air balloon slowly lowered, and finally landed on an open field in the east of the city.

At this time, Wang Chong jumped off the hot air balloon with a satisfied expression.

“Your Highness, how is this time?” Wang Chong looked at King Yan who was waiting at the side.

After improving the hot air balloon according to Yan Wang’s guidance, he practiced the operation every day.

Today I finally took off from this point and came back here again.

But because of the wind direction, he made a big circle.

“Pretty good.” Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

He just asked Wang Chong to change the burning pot of the hot air balloon into the shape of a barrel, and at the same time, he opened a hole on the side of the barrel, inserted an iron plate, and controlled the size of the flame by twitching the iron plate.

Another problem was fuel. He asked Wang Chong to replace the straw and replace the original fuel with toner mixed with vegetable oil.

Carbon powder burns slowly, vegetable oil burns fast, and the mixture of the two burns neither fast nor slow, which is just right.

Wang Chong chuckled twice, and said at this moment: “Your Highness, I know what you want this hot air balloon for?”

“Really?” Zhao Xu stood with his hands behind his back, “Tell me.

” , this coupled with a telescope, can see the enemy for real.” Wang Chong laughed.

“Well, not bad, what else?” Zhao Xu continued to ask.

Wang Chong scratched his head, but couldn’t think of anything, “Is there any other usage?”

“Of course, but I won’t tell you now.” Zhao Xu looked at the hot air balloon, “This king will arrange some soldiers for you, and you will teach them how to use it.” Manipulate the hot air balloon, and make nine more for backup.”

He still attaches great importance to the hot air balloon, since Wang Chong made it by accident, he must use it to play the greatest role.

After all, the only man-made object that can fly in the sky in this era is a hot air balloon.

In Dasong, it is unique in Yanzhou.

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Wang Chong said loudly.

He saw excitement in King Yan’s eyes.

From this point of view, his hot air balloon is really useful.

Now he was finally balanced, and he was not overwhelmed by Qu Sheng.

(end of this chapter)