The big man has a living father

Chapter 213 (Long Chapter) Arrival at Qiancheng
"Boss, a convoy is coming!"

The big boss opened his eyes and said, "Huh? It's still snowing, and there are still people transporting goods? It must be valuable goods. If we do this, that's enough for us!"

"Swoosh!" A firework shot into the sky.

The group of people who were lying in ambush looked up at the fire in the sky. Before they could see what was going on, a loud noise was heard in their ears.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"My ear!" The spy's ear was shot off. As he was screaming, the scream stopped abruptly and he fell to the ground.

Faced with inexplicable deaths, the group of robbers panicked and were all scared silly. In the end, the few who survived simply dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground.

A group of people knelt together.

Huangfu Hua walked out from behind the hill.

In February, Huangfu Hua returned from the north after completing his one-year term and was named Marquis of Beihai.

Beihai is a town at the western end of Lake Baikal. Huangfu Hua spent a lot of time in the year going north to Beihai, surrounding the Xiongnu royal court and not allowing them to escape.

After he came back, Beihai Pavilion became his title and he became Marquis of Beihai Pavilion.

Huangfu Hua had no time to rest after returning. He immediately received a new task. He led a group of soldiers returning from the north to remove all obstacles to the construction of the Anluo Railway.

Whether it is in the mountains or in the city.

It wouldn't be too late to do it at the end of February.

However, after the Spring Examination ended in mid-February, Huo Hai immediately left Chang'an and headed east via the canal.

Huangfu Hua had nothing to do anyway, so he simply led the team out. Clearing the obstacles was one thing, and paving the way for the young master was another.

But the two things seem to be one and the same.

Looking at the robbers kneeling on the ground, Huangfu Hua put his hands behind his back and glanced around.

"Kill them all."

The robber became anxious when he heard this.

How can you kill someone after you voted? ! !
Even if they are arrested and sent to jail, they still need to be tried!

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as interrogation on the grassland.

A subordinate stepped forward and said, "Sir Huangfu, should we... send them to Luoyang for trial? Otherwise, if we kill these people, we might be accused of killing innocent people for meritorious service."

Huangfu Hua: "No need for that. These are people who have committed heinous crimes. They deserve to die."

"Whoever dares to falsely accuse me must see whether the court judge believes it, whether the chancellor believes it, and whether your majesty believes it."

Huangfu Hua turned around and looked into the distance. Smoke and dust could already be seen from the convoy in the distance.

Huangfu Hua: "As the young master said, the food produced by the Han Dynasty is enough to feed five times the population of the Han Dynasty. No matter how poor a person is, as long as he is willing to work, he will not starve."

"At this point, even if it's stealing, I don't agree with it, but I can understand it. But if it's robbing, that's antisocial personality, and you should just kill him."

If there is a shortage of food in the world, there is a possibility of becoming a bandit or rebelling.

Nowadays, there is no shortage of food, but those who still become robbers deserve to die.

There is no need to save such people.

Huangfu Hua's men acted without hesitation.

Huangfu Hua didn't even look at them.

Imprisoned? Interrogated? That was the job of the yamen runners.

The order I received from His Majesty is to eliminate all hidden dangers on the Ping'anluo Railway.

We must chop all the bandits on this land into meat paste just like plowing the land, and make them regret doing this job.

After the screams stopped, Huangfu Hua spoke up: "Send someone to check which village nearby has a large number of missing men, but can't find them on any nearby construction sites."

"That's the robbers' den."

"Once they are found, the entire village will be arrested and sent to the northern border to be sentenced."

The northern border we are talking about now is not Hohhot or Anle County.

But it is north of the North Sea and south of the North Ocean.

The subordinate immediately understood the superior's style of doing things and bowed his head: "Yes, sir!"

This time, the newly joined deputy was away doing his work, and Huangfu Hua's usual advisor, the councilor, stepped forward and said, "Sir, we are now inside the empire, not on the grassland. Shouldn't we be gentler in our methods?"

Huangfu Hua: "You don't understand. The first blow was hard because it saved them. If other people along the way get the news, they should never pick up a knife again and live their lives pretending to be ordinary people."

"That keeps them safe."

"If it's not bloody and brutal enough, it will only lead more people astray."

Deputy: "Sir, that makes sense, but what if someone causes trouble again after we leave?"

Huangfu Hua: "That's because you don't understand the railway system. We only maintain public security on this road during the construction of the railway."

"Once the railway is completed, we will recruit railway police. All railway police will be either outstanding students who have just graduated from school or descendants of local nobles. They know where the robbers' dens are better than us. After they take office, there will be no more robbers."

……

It was very warm in the carriage.

To be precise, the carriage used by Huo Hai was not really a carriage, but a brand-new technological horse-powered mechanical chassis.

It's somewhere between a truck chassis and a classic car chassis, but the strength of the various materials is much higher.

It takes five horses to pull it.

The good news is that Huo Hai and Princess Wei Chang are qualified to use five horses to pull the carriage.

The better news is that the distance you need to walk on land during the entire journey is not far, so you don’t need to sit in the car for too long.

The bad news is that after this period of canal transportation, the road will not be as smooth as it was in the past.

Princess Wei Chang must be seasick.

There were three people in the carriage, Huo Hai, Princess Wei Chang, and Liu Xijun.

All three of them were wearing woolen sweaters with cotton underwear underneath.

Huo Hai looked at the fireworks outside the window and paid no more attention to them.

Liu Xijun turned her head and looked out the window: "How long have fireworks been invented in Chang'an? People here are already using them?"

Huo Hai turned on the thermos cup and took a sip of tea: "That was Huangfu Hua sending out a signal flare to suppress the bandits."

There was a flash of fire and blood flowed like a river.

When Liu Xijun saw that there were no more fireworks, she turned back.

This time, Princess Wei Chang secretly followed again, and brought Liu Xijun with her.

This time is different from last time.

The last time was when Huo Hai led a large army to the grassland to attack the Huns, and it was a head-on engagement.

This time, Huo Hai was going to take care of the affairs of the Kingdom of Nanyue.

This matter is not as simple as conquering the Kingdom of Nanyue.

Huo Hai also wanted to inspect the entire Nanyue Kingdom.

It stands to reason that this area in modern times is a rich land and suitable for farming, but this is not necessarily the case in this era.

A transformation that lasts for a thousand years and a transformation that lasts for a hundred years are two completely different things.

Moreover, the population of Nanyue was distributed in such a large area, and its development was probably very limited.

Huo Hai had to have a firm grasp of this piece of land before he would know what to do next with it.

In addition to this problem, there are also issues regarding the various islands to the south, issues regarding Dantu County in Kuaiji County, issues regarding the Yangtze River shipping route, issues regarding the Yellow River shipping route, issues regarding Qiancheng, and issues regarding Jiaodong.

Huo Hai looked sideways and saw that next to his own carriage, half a step back, was Liu Xian's carriage.

When Liu Xian went to Chang'an this time, he acted like a filial son and a good grandson.

At the same time, he sent a group of subordinates to Chang'an to learn new knowledge.

A wonderful play called "Emperor Grandfather" was also performed at the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.

Then, after hearing that Huo Hai was going to train the sea, he immediately announced that he would return and followed Huo Hai.

This guy has no other ideas, he just wants to get rich.

But Huo Hai couldn't let him get rich.

Because if he made a fortune in Jiaodong, who would go to Daxia? Who would go to the Tianzhu vassal state?
Liu Xian didn't know that he was doing useless work.

Very attentive along the way.

Princess Wei Chang saw Huo Hai looking at Liu Xian's carriage and knew what Huo Hai was thinking: "Do you want to avoid him?"

Huo Hai: "Not only him, I avoided all the marquisates and fiefdoms along the way."

There were marquisates everywhere along the way of the canal transport. It would have been easy to avoid them, after all, the canal transport was open all the way, and it was normal not to get off the boat. But when people insisted on boarding the boat to visit, Huo Hai said that the princess was not feeling well and it was inconvenient for her to get off the boat, and then he gave her a meal and sent her away.

No one else can say anything.

But the road down there becomes more difficult.

Only when we board the boat on the Yellow River again can we reach Qiancheng.

Moreover, if Huo Hai went to Qiancheng, how could the bigwigs of the nearby marquisates not go to Qiancheng?
Even though they are not in Chang'an, they are very familiar with Huo Hai.

At that time, Emperor Liu Che invited officials from all the fiefdoms in the world to participate in the autumn hunting in Shanglin Garden.

In front of all the young people in the world, Huo Hai rode his horse, held the princess in his arms, and shot a tiger as fierce as a mountain god with one shot. Even if the nobles of the feudal states in various places had never seen a gun, they could at least imagine what the scene was like.

Huo Hai has long been famous throughout the Han Dynasty.

In the past two years, caravans from all over the country have been going to Chang'an. Even people in Kuaiji County, the most remote county farthest from Chang'an, know everything about Huo Hai.

Now that Huo Hai is out to tame the sea, how could they miss it?

At this time, many of them were already on their way to Qiancheng.

Just as Huo Hai expected, when he got off the canal and headed to the Yellow River wharf by land, all the nobles along the way wanted to entertain Huo Hai.

Not only the nobles along the way, but also the wealthy merchants from Luoyang City, even Wancheng, and the wealthy merchants from the north bank of the Yellow River all rushed over, all to meet Huo Hai and see if they could hear some "secrets to getting rich".

In the past, when people talked about someone being wealthy, they would say that person owned a street in a certain big city.

If you ask around, you will find that a street in a local area is not as expensive as a house in Chang'an. And there are three districts in Chang'an that are all real estate managed by Huo Hai.

Any one of these three districts is ten times the size of Luoyang’s main city.

How many cities in the Han Dynasty were as powerful as Luoyang? There were only five.

Huo Hai’s wealth is thirty times that of Luoyang?

No, no, no, real estate is the least profitable of Huo Hai's assets. Apart from anything else, the popular money in Luoyang now is Huo's IOU, right?
You may be the richest man in this city or that city, but your combined wealth is not even enough to cover the IOUs that others issue in half a day.

This is a theoretical debt he owes to everyone in the Han Dynasty.

In fact, all the people in the Han Dynasty worked for him.

Do you understand how rich Huo Hai is?
But even in this situation, Huo Hai would not receive anyone.

They directly raised the military flag with the word "Huo" on it, indicating that this was a military and national affair and there was nothing to be gained from it.

So, no one dared to mention business, they just talked about entertaining and not eating.

In fact, Huo Hai really wanted to give these people some advice.

It would be great if Huo Hai could follow instructions along the way during this trip.

This means that more people can be attracted to the core of this change. If everyone works together, the economy will develop faster.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the population of Britain was less than five million.

And because the place was too small to support so many people, it took two hundred years for the population to reach over 10 million.

What about the Han Dynasty? The population of Chang'an, Tongguan, Chengdu, Huaishuo, Longxi, Qiancheng and other secondary layout places, which are currently participating in the new business reform, is close to 5 million.

Not counting the permanent residents in these places, there are more than four million workers gathered nearby.

There are a total of 30 million people along the Yellow River.

If these 30 million people were brought in, the industrial energy that would be unleashed would instantly explode the energy of the late British Industrial Revolution.

But the problem is that that would cause all places to quickly become wealthy, narrowing the gap between them and Chang'an, causing people to lose the motivation to go to Chang'an, and even making the nobles no longer willing to leave their fiefdoms.

This is contrary to the globalization strategy that is about to be implemented.

In the process of globalization, it is really necessary for the Liu clan to step out of their homeland.

So Huo Hai held back and said nothing.

However, even if Huo Hai didn't mention anything, it was enough to surprise these nobles and wealthy people.

Because although Huo Hai said nothing about the development of technology and industry.

However, it points out what kind of agricultural products and raw materials Chang'an will need in the future, where mining can be profitable, and where mining will be closer to stations along the future railway.

Of course there is no need to conceal these things, because this is a blood transfusion to Chang'an.

There will always be people who want to do these businesses. Huo Hai's advice in this regard is to avoid wasting energy and energy in this industrial revolution.

Eliminate the wrong routes, wrong development directions and wrong city directions, and concentrate your efforts on gathering wealth in the superior strongholds.

The distance on the road was actually not far, but it took Huo Hai a whole month to walk it.

If the bacon, dried fish and sea cucumbers that were transported here also took so long, the day lilies would have gotten cold.

But it was also because Huo Hai actually came here to investigate the economic levels of various parts of the empire.

So there is no rush, just walk slowly.

Only after experiencing the merchant culture of Luoyang did Huo Hai board a boat on the bank of the Yellow River.

The current situation in Luoyang is much better than what Bu Shi told Huo Hai about.

What Bu Shi and Huo Hai described was a place where everyone was doing business.

It sounds a lot like a TV series Huo Hai had watched, which was the Suzhou in Zhang Weijian's version of Shen Wansan. It was a city full of small vendors, but there were no big businessmen or pillar industries. It was a large commercial city that was born out of local wealth and developed transportation.

What Huo Hai saw was a city that looked like Chang'an about two and a half years ago.

Many people who moved to Chang'an found that business was not so easy to do in Chang'an, so they started to make money again by returning to their hometowns.

They have the label of "Chang'an returnees" who have seen the world, so when doing business, people are willing to listen to them.

They easily brought many things from Chang'an to Luoyang.

Luoyang also began to learn from Chang'an and no longer deliberately restricted business to the market.

However, this also means that Luoyang has a huge demand for police force, and a large number of police forces are needed to catch thieves.

In Chang'an, all these jobs were done by soldiers in the army. The soldiers were not as lenient as the local detectives and clerks, so the theft trend did not spread.

It's different in Luoyang. Because the punishment is light, the trend of stealing has spread.

This echoes the first question of this year's imperial examination.

Speaking of the first question, Huo Hai had already asked Huangfu Hua.

Huangfu Hua’s answer was that in Chang’an City, there was no need to worry about such things.

The Second Lieutenant's Office does not need to deal with this matter. It only needs to make everything public and justice will be in the hearts of the people.

The people in Chang'an City are highly educated. As long as the Vice Lieutenant's Office provides a little guidance and sends someone to post a notice to explain the matter clearly, then the matter will be reduced from the level of government affairs to the level of popular gossip.

Huo Hai thought about it carefully and concluded that the gap was caused by the differences in residents’ quality, environment, and infrastructure construction.

But now Huo Hai thought that if this happened in Luoyang, it would be different. Huo Hai felt that the reason why this question was selected into the test paper was not to give face to Huangfu Hua, but because the officials who came to Chang'an from all over the country really felt that this problem was very tricky and needed to be dealt with, so they asked the question for examination.

After boarding the ship in Luoyang, the speed was very fast.

Huo Hai only stayed in the ancient State of Zheng, took a look at the relics left by Duke Zhuang of Zheng, and then stopped in Kaifeng County for a while.

Kaifeng County was originally called Qifeng County, but was changed to Kaifeng County to avoid the taboo of Liu Qi.

In Kaifeng County, Huo Hai became playful and taught the local residents how to make fried chicken burgers.

Huo Hai snatched the title of "the origin of stir-frying" from Kaifeng and gave them the name "Kaifeng KFC".

Although I don't know if they are willing to accept it. But to be honest, the economy in this area is far less developed than Chang'an, and now fried chicken and hamburgers are high-calorie foods, which are very attractive.

I guess if they can improve it, it wouldn't be hard to say if KFC could open in Chang'an.

After staying in Kaifeng for a few days, Princess Wei Chang's seasickness symptoms improved a lot. After she truly adapted to seasickness, Huo Hai's fleet began to head east to Qiancheng.

This time when we arrived at Qiancheng, we were really going to Southeast Asia.

By the time they reached Qiancheng, they had completed most of the journey. Although the rest of the journey was far, it could actually be reached within ten days by boat. At this time, Huo Hai did not dare to let Princess Wei Chang return.

Princess Wei Chang felt much better after she got used to the bumps on the boat.

At present, this section of the river is not like that of the future. It is no problem for a thousand-ton ship to sail through this section of the river.

The bad news is that thousand-ton ships have not yet been invented.

Finally, the fleet arrived at Qiancheng.

Qiancheng County was named after the Qi State city of Qiancheng. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, a chariot was made up of four horses. A large country had a thousand chariots and was known as the "country of a thousand chariots."

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Jing of Qi had a thousand horses, which he used for hunting in Qingtian, hence the name "Qiancheng".

Qiancheng City consists of two cities, the north and south, with the ancient Luoshui River running through the city. Qiancheng County was established in the early Western Han Dynasty, with the Luoshui River flowing into the sea to the east of the county.

Historically, Emperor Liu Che established Qiancheng County around 110 BC.

Actually, it was because the King of Qi, Liu Cichang, the King of Qi Li, was the son of Liu Shou, the King of Qi Yi. He succeeded to the throne in 131 BC. He committed adultery with his sister. When Lord Father Yan, the Prime Minister of Qi, investigated the matter, he committed suicide out of fear of punishment and his kingdom was abolished.

During the Han Dynasty, especially during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the moral standards improved slightly due to the crazy killing of clan members who did such things.

Historically, it was around these two years that Huo Qubing and Huo Guang proposed that Liu Che's descendants be enfeoffed as fiefdoms.

Among them, Liu Hong became the King of Qi.

Later in 110 BC, Liu Hong died, and the title of King of Qi was revoked. The title of King of Qi was never established again in the Western Han Dynasty.

At present, it is unlikely that Liu Hong will become the King of Qi unless the Qi Peninsula is in Central Asia.

Because of the construction of a naval base, Qiancheng has been promoted to a higher level and built into a county.

Currently, Qi County is divided into two parts, one part is still the original Qi County, and the other part has been changed to Qiancheng County.

The purpose of Qi County was to separate Qiancheng County and Jiaodong State.

Simply put, Liu Che did not want the Prince of Lu and the Prince of Jiaodong to learn the secret of sea vessels and develop sea vessels on their own.

When he arrived at Qiancheng, Liu Xian still followed Huo Hai and had no intention of returning to Jiaodong.

Only then did Huo Hai take out Liu Che's secret decree.

"King of Jiaodong, don't make a mistake."

Liu Xianren was dumbfounded: "Why! I just want to make money. Why can the King of Lu and the King of Zhao do it but I can't?!"

Huo Hai: "You can make money, but not in Jiaodong. Do you understand?"

"His Majesty has told me many times that your father is one of the royal family members he has the best relationship with, and he loves you more than almost all of them. Do you understand?"

Liu Xian remained silent.

Huo Hai: "Now the territory of the Han Dynasty is so large, there are so many places that need economic development, and so many places need royal family members to be in charge. If Jiaodong develops into a small Chang'an, are you still willing to go there?"

Liu Xian was stunned for a moment.

What Little Chang'an? Jiaodong is not as good as Tongguan. Not to mention Tongguan, it is not as prosperous as any town near Chang'an city!

Even though the tombs and small towns near Chang'an have become countryside now, no one wants to go there.

In a place like this, Jiaodong was hung up and beaten!

Liu Xian finally understood what was going on. No wonder Huo Hai refused to give in no matter how he tried to show goodwill along the way, how he said Jiaodong was suitable for economic development, and how he tried to share the profits with the Huo family.

It turns out that His Majesty has an imperial decree.

Liu Xian: "In other words, Your Majesty hopes that I will take the lead and set an example in the near future?"

Liu Xian was not stupid. After he discovered that Lu was developing, he went directly to Chang'an and made a name for himself among many clan members. How could he be stupid?

If a person is stupid, seeing the imperial edict and the rebuke, he would probably become discouraged and prepare to rebel.

But in fact, Liu Xian immediately realized one thing.

Why would Your Majesty tell me such a confidential matter?

It is obvious that His Majesty feels that the time has not come yet, so he just told me in advance so that I can be prepared. When the time comes, I should take the initiative to volunteer!
Do you know Zhongjun? How many people in Chang'an City have their own idioms?
Zhongjun, who was only seventeen years old, had an idiom that meant volunteering, and everyone in Chang'an knew it.

Everyone in Chang'an knew that after Zhongjun learned that the imperial court was going to govern the Kingdom of Nanyue, he took the initiative to resign from his position as an official and become a deputy envoy.

With this example in mind, Liu Xian still doesn't understand what Your Majesty means.

In other words, once I am ready, I can ask His Majesty for permission and take the initiative to request a further location for the fiefdom.

Liu Xian looked at Huo Hai: "Is that what you mean?"

Huo Hai: "I don't know what it means. I only know what His Majesty said. What you think is your business."

Liu Xian: "Please tell His Majesty that I can, but I want to go to a place by the sea, not to the Western Regions. I will accept even the North Pole or the New World."

Huo Hai glanced at Liu Xian.

Good man, you want to be the king of America, you’re dreaming!
But this problem should not be a big problem. Is there any problem in banishing him to India?
Huo Hai: "What if I need you to go to a place without the sea and hold on for a while, and then transfer it?"

Liu Xian: "I'm still young, I have no complaints!"

Huo Hai: "Okay, I will tell His Majesty about this."

After getting the answer, Liu Xian left the dock and the convoy headed towards Jiaodong State.

This made the clan members who came to Qiancheng to block Huo Hai very confused.

"King of Jiaodong? Why did you leave first?!"

"King of Jiaodong, I haven't seen you for many years. Why don't you stay for dinner?!"

Liu Xian: "Qiancheng is an important place, where the Han navy is located. Our status is not suitable for us to stay here for long. Let's go first."

The Northern Naval Base and the Southern Naval Base in Kuaiji County are indeed very important.

Tian Jue and others were at the dock.

After Liu Xian's people had left for a while, Huo Hai brought Princess Wei Chang down from the boat.

Various cargoes on the ship were also being unloaded.

This time, Huo Hai came not just alone, but also brought all the new technologies developed by Changan in the past year.

Seeing Tian Jue Huo Hai waved.

This time I also brought some personal things for Tian Jue.

Ever since Huo Hai became the second lieutenant of Chang'an, Tian Jue has worked as a yamen runner for Huo Hai for free. Even after Tian Jue was promoted and became independent, he was still working for Huo Hai.

After all, the entire navy is managed by Huo Hai.

Although Huo Hai did not participate in any actual management work, this navy was something that did not exist before. All the links were designed by Huo Hai, and all the personnel were selected by Huo Hai. Even if Huo Hai did not participate in any actual management, if there is a need now, isn't it Huo Hai who comes?
So Tian Jue is working for Huo Hai.

After getting off the boat, Princess Wei Chang personally brought a bag of things to Tian Jue: "This is what your wife brought you. You have been on the road for too long, but the weather is cold, so it should be fine."

Tian Jue's eyes were filled with tears: "Your Highness, how could I trouble you to bring this up in person..."

Huo Hai: "Let them clean up first, and tell me what happened in the past few months."

It was freezing cold in the past few months, and transportation was not as good as in spring, summer and autumn. Information flow was also not as good, and the entire north was almost frozen.

Now Tian Jue also has time to report.

"Currently, the population of the large islands in the entire East China Sea has been confirmed to be over 800,000, and the estimated population that has not been confirmed is between 100,000 and 500,000."

"The slaves they had accumulated were already concentrated in Edo."

"We have already stirred up hatred between them, but the hatred is not deep. However, as the war continues, it is only a matter of time before they start killing each other."

"Over there, we have already promoted the concept of the 'Warring States Period', allowing the idea of ​​competing for the islands to gradually spread."

However, someone is secretly selling weapons to the weak, making it impossible to unify the island, so the only outcome is that more and more people are sent to Edo in exchange for weapons.

"Yang Pu and Edo." Huo Hai looked at Tian Jue.

Tian Jue: "Yang Pu is really good at this kind of thing. He does it almost perfectly. Everything goes according to plan. He even does it so well that the research team has too many research subjects."

"Edo is a very twisted and violent person. He is the only one in the research group who can conduct research without any psychological pressure. He is even the one who does many of the more critical things."

"However, Peng Yi tried his best to suppress his path to advancement, saying that he only did physical work and other people did the mental work, but he gave him a lot of financial rewards."

"This guy is also very popular among the natives."

Huo Hai nodded.

Originally, I asked them to do this because I thought they were suitable.

We can't do anything just because they do a good job.

But Edo is really not suitable to return to the Han mainland.

"Is there any information from Kuaiji County?"

Tian Jue shook his head: "It's very difficult to get out of Qiong Island. Two of our ships capsized there."

"Fortunately, each time we go out, we only have a fleet and everyone can swim, so there aren't too many casualties, and each time the number is in the single digit. But it may not be easy to explore this route."

Huo Hai looked at the map handed over by Tian Jue. He did not feel that they had suffered heavy losses. Instead, he felt that they were doing very well.

Originally, we thought that this route would be impossible to navigate without causing a lot of capsizing, but we didn't expect that the fleet had explored a thousand kilometers south of the Kingdom of Nanyue.

Although the part of the coastline drawn is different from what Huo Hai remembers.

But looking at the huge horn at this location, it feels like it should have already discovered the location of the Thailand Bay in later generations.

However, there has been little progress in the other direction of the coastline.

The Ibaraki Island and other islands further away have not yet been discovered in the sea.

Huo Hai couldn't just tell them that there was an island in this direction that was bigger than Qiong Island, or that there was an even bigger island further out to sea in this direction, right?
However, according to the latest intelligence, a continuous stream of ships have encountered islanders in these areas.

They just haven't figured out the origins of the islanders yet.

Although the ship is fast, the islanders' boats are small, and once they enter the island and reef area, they cannot be caught up.

So in fact, Lubode was also speculating that there was a big island in the sea outside the East China Sea, but they had not found its location yet.

However, Lu Bode did not send anyone to look for him.

Instead, we plan to wait until the islanders get used to the navigation of large ships and take the initiative to contact them, and then we will figure out the location of the island.

Huo Hai was not in a hurry. He thought it would not be too late to talk about these things after he got there.

Huo Hai and Tian Jue were discussing here, while the nobles and wealthy businessmen in the distance had already roughly guessed Huo Hai's identity.

Huo Hai was wearing a down jacket. They knew each other. Currently in Qiancheng, many crew members heading north also wore down jackets.

But what’s different about Huo Hai’s down jacket is that it has a different style, is more gorgeous, and the fabric is obviously not cheap cloth.

Moreover, the zippers on Huo Hai’s down jackets are shinier than those on others.

A young man wearing the latest down jacket came down from the boat, followed by a beautiful woman. They were obviously Marquis Wu and Princess Wei Chang.

However, they did not enter the port, because the port was within the scope of the Qiancheng Navy's North Base. Whoever entered would die, even the king was no exception.

After Huo Hai and Tian Jue had finished their conversation, they got in the car and drove out.

When they arrived at the place where they were waiting, Huo Hai came out and stood on the front stage of the carriage: "Everyone, clan elders, elders, and wealthy businessmen from all over the place, tonight, I, Xuanwu Marquis Huo Hai, will host a banquet for you in Qiancheng County."

"please."

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I had already thought about what the new book would be about when I started it. After I had a thorough understanding of the structure of the new book recently, the idea of ​​writing a new book reached its peak today. I sat in front of the computer at seven o'clock and opened the page of this book. I haven't written a single word yet, and this chapter is still being updated manually.

I have to suppress the urge to write a new book and finish the old one first. The old book is only halfway done. (Say it out loud, don’t leave yourself any room for retreat) At least write nearly two million words!
(End of this chapter)