After he captures Sri Lanka, it will not only become a front line to intercept Western infiltration, but also a trade base! Liu Haojiahui organized maritime merchants to transport goods from the Ming Dynasty here to trade with the West and Arabs. When Western ships arrive here, they can buy Eastern goods, and they will also lose their desire to continue heading east. This will completely lock Southeast Asia and Australia, giving them enough time to slowly digest it. Read the book
As for another plan, it is to organize an expedition to sail eastward, with the goal of North and South America! Liu Haojia wanted to establish a foothold and gradually immigrate before the white people completely developed the Americas. This would create a situation where Westerners would develop in the eastern part of the Americas, while the Ming Dynasty would develop in the western part of the Americas, and both sides would advance at the same time. In this way, the white people could be completely eliminated. Dominate America!
Liu Haojia felt that when Westerners were developing the Americas in a disorderly manner, it would be much more efficient than them if they carried out planned development on their own! In particular, he also feels that he has another advantage, and that is the advantage of skin color! At present, the indigenous people in North and South America are all yellow people, so you can definitely make a fuss about this! However, this is only a long-term vision and needs to be realized step by step.
At the same time, Liu Hao's family also made many secret arrangements. For example, he made a lot of preparations for the three major conquests of the Ming Dynasty in the future. These three major campaigns were the Battle of Ningxia, the Battle of Korea and the Battle of Bozhou.
Since the Korean War was an invasion by foreign enemies, Liu Haojia really couldn't get involved, so he just sent a group of spies to the Li family. As for Ningxia and Bozhou, they are the places he focuses on monitoring, but there are differences.
The battle of Ningxia was Xiaobai's rebellion, so the focus was to place people under his command. It will then serve as the final word. The Battle of Bozhou involved ethnic minority rebellion. The xenophobic nature of their nation also made it difficult for him to get involved. So he focused on mapping. At least having a detailed map when fighting in the future is much better than being in the dark!
At the same time, Lianshenghao has also achieved considerable development! Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s just talk about Liansheng Bank, a small bank that developed from the capital. It was originally a small bank to collect taxes from the capital. Now it has developed into a behemoth connecting the north and the south!
Liu Haojia took advantage of the fact that everyone now had little understanding of the role of banks and began to vigorously promote the expansion of banks! Now in every province in the Ming Dynasty, there is at least one Liansheng Bank!
Nowadays, the remote cashing bank notes issued by Liansheng Bank are called "passes" by businessmen and officials, and they can be circulated throughout the Ming Dynasty! This alone makes Lend Lease Bank reluctant to charge fees! Not to mention that various bank branches also offer investment loans and other means, so the money is really flowing like a river!
However, for Lianshenghao's other business, he adopted another method, that is, while maintaining the existing business, he acted as low-key as possible! Because the current transportation and communication in Ming Dynasty are limited by the times, they are unacceptably slow! This has also caused a lot of trouble for management, so he now uses more shares to expand in a low-key manner! After all, there has been a custom of killing New Year pigs in all dynasties, and Liu Haojia didn’t want to be targeted!
All in all, in the past two years or so, Liu Haojia has been in great power, giving orders in all directions, and has laid a very solid foundation for the expansion of the court and his own family! And he actually managed to keep a low profile under such circumstances, which made outsiders feel that the Liu family had stalled.
This also made the civil servants in the DPRK and China heave a sigh of relief! A person who controls financial resources, military strength, and is in a high position puts too much pressure on them! If the Liu family hadn't shown signs of stagnation, the civil servants headed by Zhang Juzheng would have long ago tried to dismantle the Liu family! But what they didn't expect was that Liu Haojia took advantage of the current communication inconvenience and put on a disguise for himself!
But Liu Haojia has not been without troubles in recent years! His first worry was the slow advance of low-priced salt north of the Yangtze River!
In fact, Liu Haojia's low-price salt is advancing very quickly north of the Yellow River! Taking the capital as an example, the price of salt in the capital has reached an unprecedented 30 cents per pound! This made the people of the capital highly praise it!
But once you cross the Yellow River and push towards the Yangtze River, it becomes difficult! The main reason is that the salt merchants have formed a group and launched a sniper attack on him!
Because once you cross the Yellow River, you basically belong to the Central Plains and are close to the south, and the power of these salt merchants becomes stronger! They did everything they could to resist Liu Haojia's entry of low-priced salt!
In addition to paying off officials to provide cover and instigating local gangsters to cause trouble, they also used a trump card, which was the salt lords of all sizes who were active in various places!
These salt lords used to make a living from private salt. Although they are not a unified organization, they still have a strict distribution system and distribution areas, and they all know each other. And because selling illegal salt is a capital crime, these salt lords are often extremely fierce and even dare to fight with officers and soldiers! Especially when the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty became more and more depleted, many powerful salt lords did not pay attention to the official army at all!
The salt lords know one thing very clearly, that is, the entry of low-priced salt will be their doom! Only when the price of official salt is high can they have room to sell their private salt and make huge profits! So they hate low-priced salt!
This is especially true for low-priced salt from salt merchants! These salt merchants have controlled the salt industry for generations, and their families are as rich as gold and silver. At the same time, a large amount of money flows into them every year. How could they be willing to lose everything in front of them!
So the two sides quickly colluded together. The salt merchants provided money and suggestions, and the salt lords provided people and efforts to fight bloody and stubborn resistance to the low-priced salt that entered their area! So for a time, there were frequent reports from various places that ships transporting salt sank somewhere, warehouses storing salt were burned, salt shops were besieged, and even caravans transporting salt were attacked.
Moreover, these salt owl were ruthless and caused many casualties! For a time, the number of merchants willing to participate was greatly reduced, which greatly hindered the advancement of low-price salt!
Faced with this situation, Liu Haojia didn't have any ideas! He even used his identity as the commander of the Jin Yiwei to send letters to various officials, asking them to cooperate and arrest the salt owl! However, local officials in various places have been fed by salt merchants for a long time, and they have leverage by accepting money from others. Naturally, they do not dare to go against them!
