Lan Li looked unstable. After a while, he got up and said nothing, but just hugged Zhao Hongcan and Guan Yuanzhong, fists and turned around and left.

"Ship Lan..." Guan Yuanzhong didn't understand what Lan Li meant, and was about to get up and call him but was stopped by Zhao Hongcan.

"It's okay to leave, it's okay to leave..." Zhao Hongcan said with a slight robe, stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Guan, the guest is still waiting, let's go too."

Guan Yuanzhong seemed to understand something, shook his head and sighed, and walked out of the side hall together with Zhao Hongcan and headed towards the main hall.

Leaving the Governor's Office, Lan Li went back to the camp directly. As for what happened to the Governor, he had not told anything, and it seemed that nothing had happened. In the following days, Lan Li stepped up training his troops and was ready to go to war at any time, and also closely monitored the news from the east.

At this time, the Ming army in Xin'an was also making final preparations. As the Ming army landed in Xin'an, a large number of subsequent resources were continuously transported from Jiangnan to the front line through merchant ships. Since the Ming army completely controlled the southeast coast and there was no Qing naval force in this sea area, all this was orderly and smooth.

"Wang Shuai, this place is really good. In my opinion, it is better than Nanao." Pointing to the port not far away, Bao Honghui, the young leader of the Bao family in Ningbo, exclaimed.

This time, the Ming Dynasty attacked Guangdong. As a member of Ningbo Commercial Bank, the Bao family certainly had to make some efforts. Bao Honghui was Bao Yangsheng's eldest son. Over the years, Bao Yangsheng has gradually handed over the rights of the Bao family to Bao Honghui, especially the Hai Trade business. Bao Honghui can almost be the owner of the Bao family.

The Bao family was originally a businessman, and among the six majors in Ningbo, the Bao family's trademanship was quite good. However, because Bao Yangsheng looked forward and failed to directly surrender to Zhu Yicheng like Wang Fan, he lost the best opportunity. After that, Bao Yangsheng watched the Wang family develop step by step, and Zhu Yicheng successfully ascended the throne of the emperor again, and Bao Yangsheng's intestines regretted it.

In order to make up for the previous mistakes, the Bao family not only strongly supported the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade policy, but has been more proactive in the past year. Whether it was the Ming army defending Zhejiang or attacking Fujian before, the Bao family could be said to have ships and some people to do it. The Bao family's actions did indeed make Zhu Yicheng look at him with admiration. Because of the Bao family's attitude, the Ming Navy has a good impression of the Bao family. As a senior general, the private relationship between Wang Dong and Bao Honghui is very good.

This time, the Ming Dynasty went south to Guangdong, preparing to wipe out the Qing army in Guangdong in one fell swoop and capture Guangdong's territory in the Ming Dynasty. Bao Honghui, as the young leader of the Bao family, was of course unswervingly, and sent nearly a hundred large ships to follow the army to transport supplies for the Ming Dynasty.

"This place is indeed good. After taking Guangzhou, you can be a commercial port here." Wang Dong, as a navy general, could see the terrain in front of him and nodded in agreement.

In fact, the place where they are located was Hong Kong in the future, and the bay they faced was Victoria Harbor in later generations. Compared with the South Australian Military Harbor, although this place has not been developed, it is now just a small fishing village. However, from the terrain and the structure of the bay, it is quite promising if it can be properly rectified.

As senior executives of the Ming army and the leading figures in Ningbo's business, they all know about Shanghai development. Now Shanghai is a new city that Zhu Yicheng has high hopes for. Unfortunately, Shanghai development Zhu Yicheng specially handed over to the Ye family to do. Compared with the Ye family, the Bao family's background and appeal are slightly worse.

This time when he went south, Bao Honghui was not only responsible for maritime logistics transportation for the Ming Dynasty, but also took on the task of accompanying the army to check Guangdong's trade routes. Before leaving, Bao Honghui and Bao Yangsheng and his son closed the door and talked for a long time. In the eyes of their father and son, if the Bao family wanted to keep up with the footsteps of the Wang family and the Ye family, in addition to letting Zhu Yicheng see their sincerity, they must also continue to expand the trade routes and strengthen the Bao family's own strength.

Compared with the Ye family, the Bao family was born in the sea trade industry, and their qualifications and connections were even stronger in this regard than the Wang family. If Wang Fan was not the first to defect to Zhu Yicheng, how could he have the opportunity to climb to a higher status than the Bao family? Therefore, after Bao Honghui arrived in Xin'an, he learned about the surrounding area and took a look at this natural harbor at a glance.

Guangdong has always been an important place for maritime trade. Although it is not as good as Jiangnan, it is also important in the Tiannan area. In addition, Guangzhou is a major city in Guangdong, and Xin'an is not far from Guangzhou. If you can take over this place and use the Bao family's financial resources to operate for a few years, it will definitely be a treasure land no less than Ningbo Port.

"After taking Guangzhou, Wang Shuai still needs to give me many good words to my Bao family in front of the emperor." Bao Honghui said with a smile.

"Of course." Wang Dong was in a good mood. The Bao family did work hard this time. Without the assistance of the Bao family, the transportation of supplies from tens of thousands of troops would be so easy to solve. With this merit alone, the Bao family would inevitably have rewards. Besides, what the Bao family wanted was just a harbor. In Wang Dong's opinion, Zhu Yicheng would most likely not refuse.

"Then I will thank Wang Shuai first." Seeing Wang Dong agreeing, Bao Honghui was overjoyed. Taking the harbor was the first step. As long as the harbor was in hand, the Bao family could take over the entire Guangzhou and even half of the Guangdong sea trade.

This will be extremely beneficial to the future development of the Bao family. In Ningbo, the Wang family is now dominant, and the Sihai Commercial Bank is even more powerful. The Bao family dare not compete with the Sihai Commercial Bank. You should know that the real boss of the Sihai Commercial Bank is Zhu Yicheng. But after Ningbo, especially in the area like Guangzhou, it can be said that it is blank. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Bao family will take advantage of the situation to rise, which is enough to make the Bao family have unlimited development in the future.

"It's easy to say." Wang Dong waved his hand with a smile, and then asked about Bao Honghui's subsequent supplies. The logistics requirements for the start of a tens of thousands of troops were particularly huge. If you don't talk about anything else, the consumption of food and drink every day was astronomical. Yesterday, Ma Gongcheng was still asking about Wang Dong about this. Judging from the preparation and time, the army had almost assembled. The battle to attack Guangzhou was about to begin. When the battle started, the consumption of this supplies was even greater.

"Please rest assured that a fleet of ships returned overseas a few days ago. I have asked them to inform them to go to Ningbo. After unloading the goods, the fleet will be included in the transportation ranks. It will never delay Wang Shuai's major event."

"Okay!" Wang Dong nodded repeatedly when he heard Bao Honghui say this. As long as there is no problem with logistics, he will feel relieved.

The two of them walked around the mountain and then went down the mountain. Next, Wang Dong went straight to find Ma Gongcheng. As for Bao Honghui, he went to the port below, just now he was looking at the overall situation on the mountain. Now he plans to make a good move. Bao Honghui is still ready to think about how to build and how to use this port in the future.

Accompanied by his servants, he carefully inspected the port. In a flash, a few hours passed. It was not until the sun was about to set that Bao Honghui, who was a little tired, made a journey back. When he arrived at his temporary residence near Xin'an, he saw several people standing in front of his courtyard and looking around.

"Young Master! You are finally back!" When you saw Bao Honghui's sedan chair, the leader rushed over.

"Lao Xia, why are you here? Didn't you take the boat back to Ningbo?" Bao Honghui poked his head out and was stunned when he saw that the person coming was Lao Xia, who was his own fleet.

"What happened! Something big happened to the young master!" Lao Xia said anxiously: "Our ship and cargo were stolen by the red-haired ghost. Brothers died miserably! If I weren't my smart old Xia, I'm afraid I wouldn't have seen you, Master..."

"What? The ship and cargo were stolen? The red-haired ghost? What is the situation? Come quickly!" Bao Honghui was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly got out of the sedan chair, grabbed Lao Xia's hand and asked anxiously.

Lao Xia said in a panic, listening to Lao Xia’s story, Bao Honghui frowned more and more as he heard it, and at the same time, anger arose in his heart.

Lao Xia's fleet was the fleet he mentioned to Wang Dong that he had just returned from the ocean. Although this fleet was not large in size, there were six ships. These six ships were all large merchant ships. The ship was loaded with the materials purchased from transactions with the Southeast Asian countries and the silver they earned. The total amount of money and goods was worth more than 400,000 taels.

After Lao Xia arrived in Guangdong, because Bao Honghui happened to be in Xin'an, he took the ship to make supplies in Xin'an. After seeing Bao Honghui, because the war was in full swing, Bao Honghui asked Lao Xia to return to Ningbo as soon as possible, and after the unloading was completed, he would join the transport team and transport supplies from Jiangnan to Xin'an.

But no one expected that Lao Xia had just driven Xin'an the day before yesterday, and something happened yesterday. According to Lao Xia, they met two large Western ships on the way to Xin'an and South Australia. After seeing their fleet, the two large ships rushed up without saying a word.

Lao Xia was an old man walking in the sea. At that time, he felt something was wrong and hurriedly asked all ships to avoid and fight immediately. In his opinion, he might have encountered pirates, and they were Western pirates. You should know that their ships were all wearing the Ming Dynasty flag and had the logo of the business. In this sea area, as long as people who knew their origins would not do such a move, but these two Western ships rushed straight towards them as soon as they saw them.

As expected, the other party opened the gun door directly and sent a signal to ask Lao Xia's fleet to stop the ship and surrender immediately. How could Lao Xia let the other party mercy? In this case, once the ship is stopped, he knows what will happen, so Lao Xia ordered a counterattack, and at the same time let the ships escape separately. When the other party saw Lao Xia and the others escape, they fired the gun and fired.

Lao Xia's fleet was not a warship. Each ship was equipped with only three cannons for defense. Where was the opponent's opponent? What's more, the Western ship was fast and the cannon was ruthless and accurate. With just one incense stick, a merchant ship was hit and paralyzed on the sea. The other two fleeing merchant ships were caught up one after another. After several rounds of gunfire, one was directly sunk. Seeing the situation, the other merchant ships desperately fled and resisted, but were powerless in the face of absolute power.
Chapter completed!