Chapter 68 The Giants of the East China Sea
Qujiang Pier!
Gongsun You arrived at the Liang family's painting boat.
The Liang Family Painting Boat is extremely large, with two floors of ship height, and there are mercerations on the bow deck and starboard side of the port. It uses the most water and wind-resistant wood, which is obviously improved by warships.
The strength of the Liang family cannot be underestimated if it can use an improved warship as a private pleasure boat.
Gongsun You thought about the news he had heard these days, held his chest and head up, and walked up the pleasure boat step by step.
She was handsome and beautiful, but at this moment she walked up to the pleasure boat step by step, single-handedly, with one man and one sword, but she looked majestic.
Seeing that she was a woman with such courage, everyone around the world looked awe-inspiring and said in unison: "Welcome to the leader of Gongsun!"
Gongsun You nodded slightly and said, "Where is Mr. Liang, I invite me to come, but I dare not show up?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the people around her felt very embarrassed.
He mobilized many troops on his side to give the other party a warning and let the other party know that it is not a Raptor but a river.
Unexpectedly, there was only one person coming to the other party, and it was a woman.
A group of men mobilized a group of men to demonstrate to a woman, but they said that they were big bosses and dared not meet.
Who is stronger and who is weaker can be seen at first sight.
Liang Hao, known as Mount Tai in Haidong, continued to stay silent without any face and said, "The Gongsun League Leader is in a bad mood. He is older and his health is not as good as before, and he is sleepy. He came from afar, and the boats and cars were bumpy all the way. If you accidentally, you will sniff for a while. Don't blame the Gongsun League Leader, please come in."
Gongsun nodded in humorously and entered, and went to the second floor of the pleasure boat.
There is a large room on the second floor of the pleasure boat, with windows on three sides and walls on one side.
There are more than ten guards standing guard around.
"I didn't expect that in just a few years, the leader of the Qingyu League, who was famous in Chang'an, was so young, but he was really young, and he was really the next wave to push the previous wave! Looking at the leader of Gongsun, I feel that he is old and useless."
Liang Hao invited Gongsun You to sit down and said with great emotion on the top.
Gongsun You smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Liang is joking. As a good person who controls the sea area of thousands of miles, who dares to say that you are old?"
A sharp look flashed in Liang Hao's eyes, and he shook his head and said, "It's true that the younger generation is terrifying, the younger generation is terrifying! Then think about it, the leader should know the real purpose of me looking for you?"
Gongsun You nodded.
Liang Hao's rise relies on the prestige of the world's number one hero in the world. The high status of the bearded guest in the green forest was almost enough to compete for the world.
It was because of various reasons that he gave up the struggle for the world and went abroad.
The bearded guest has become king on an isolated island overseas. The environment of overseas islands is harsh and the living environment of the islanders is extremely poor. They need to transport materials from the Central Plains to improve their reputation.
Therefore, the Liang family also used the prestige of the bearded guest in the East China Sea to gather ship workers and civilians to make huge profits of smuggling at sea.
During the years when the Liang family was in chaos, they made a lot of money.
Later, when the world was peaceful, the overseas islands gradually became self-sufficient, and the bearded guest disappeared because he was old.
The Liang family gradually cut off contact with overseas islands.
Their foundation has been established, successfully whitewashed, and monopolized the water transportation industry in the East China Sea.
Water transportation was particularly important to the Tang Dynasty.
Because when Yang Guang built the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he was eager to make a comeback and rushed to work, many places did not meet the freight standards, especially the crucial Yongji Canal.
In the late Sui Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty had not yet established a country, it was already blocked.
Over the past century, the Tang Dynasty carried out arduous dredging, repairing and digging of the Grand Canal of Sui and Tang dynasties: four digging of Bian Canal, five digging of Shanyang, three digging of Jiangnan Canal, two digging of Danba Waterway, three digging of Baoxi Road, and dredging of the former Jialing River waterway, which took a hundred years of hard work to maintain the smooth flow of the Grand Canal.
Therefore, later generations attribute everything to Yang Guang, believing that Yang Guang benefited the prosperous Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, which was really a big deal.
Moreover, the Grand Canal of Sui and Tang Dynasties strengthened north-south transportation, but it was not the main channel of the Tang Dynasty's economy.
The most important sea transportation route in the Tang Dynasty was sea transportation!
The Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was convenient, but it had the disadvantage of being often blocked and unable to directly access the large ship.
The cargo capacity of sea ships is several times that of ordinary cargo ships. The materials are transported from sea ships from Jiangnan to the East China Sea, using the East China Sea as a transit station, and transported from the East China Sea along the Yellow River by cargo ships, and transporting materials to Luoyang and Chang'an.
There are many business opportunities here, including boatmen, boatmen, and kids. These series of major projects are arranged and controlled by the Liang family.
It can even be said bluntly that as long as the Liang family strikes, the transit of Donghai trade will be slackened, affecting the supply demand in Chang'an and Luoyang.
Although Gongsun You said that the Liang family "controlled the thousands of miles of sea areas" was an exaggeration, it may not be completely true.
In the early years, officials in Haidong wanted to achieve good political achievements and to be promoted, they must first curry favor with the Liang family.
Half of Haidong's economy relies on shipping. Only by ensuring smooth shipping can we achieve good results.
Therefore, the Liang family took both black and white in Haidong and was extremely powerful.
When Liang Hao saw Gongsun You nodding, he sighed helplessly and said, "It is different from the past. This short-blade wealth path is like killing parents. I am honest and hope that the leader of Gongsun will be proud of his actions."
The Liang family has been in full swing for nearly a hundred years, but today it has reached its peak.
Mount Tai in the East China Sea can no longer rise.
It is impossible for the court to do things forever, a wealthy giant like the Liang family will always exist.
Just like Zheng Fengchi, the richest man in Chang'an back then, Li Yuan was trapped because he was too rich.
The same was true for Shen Wansan, the world's most wealthy businessman in the future, and Zhu Yuanzhang confiscated his home.
The Liang family has already received the news and has the intention to retreat bravely.
Instead of controlling people like boatmen, boatmen, and kids, they switched to the transportation industry to protect themselves.
Liang Hao discussed with his staff and divided the staff into two parts, one of which was still based on water transportation, and the other part developed land transportation.
Water transportation is relatively safe and has little profit. Now they are no longer monopolizing and cannot maintain the food of their brothers!
Land transportation was a real huge profit. In ancient times, even if the world was peaceful, there would be idle bandits, which was inevitable.
The problem also appears here, which is actually closely related to Pei Min.
When Pei Min founded the SF Express escort agency, this model did not allow Mu Cong and Mu Lin to develop.
But Gongsun You saw the clue. He felt that the real reason why the heroes of the Jianghu broke the ban with martial arts was that most of the Jianghu people were not engaged in production and were idle.
Rely on fighting to gain fame. Only by gaining fame can you maintain your life needs.
As long as the people in the martial arts world can be organized, they can do things and form a management system, various problems will be avoided.
Under the planning of Gongsun You, the Qingyu League gradually developed a system to serve as a guard for the escort agency and merchants and contribute to the work.
Qingyu League has also become bigger...
The strength of the Qingyu League is mainly Chang'an and Luoyang, and Chang'an and Luoyang are the economic center of the Tang Dynasty.
Liang Hao’s land transportation pioneered is just the front line of Chang'an and Luoyang.
Chapter completed!