Qianqing Palace.

"Whew... I really didn't expect it to be so easy. Hehe! ”

After Wanli finished approving King Lu's repetition of the domain, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and laughed very proudly.

It was much easier than he expected!

This made him very happy, and the haze brought to him by the crown prince was swept away!

The Emperor Shang combination is still strong!

Guo Dan hurriedly patted his ass and said: "This is all because Your Majesty is Shengming, Qiangang is autocratic, how can they be Your Majesty's opponents." ”

"Haha......!" Wanli is a little floating, he also has a reason to float, his performance is indeed quite exciting, he hid the civil and military capital of the Manchu Dynasty, and asked Guo Dan: "What are you going to do next?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Back to Your Majesty, the next step is to integrate the pirates along the coast, these pirates can not only escort our cargo ships, but we can also gain sailing experience from them." ”

With the power of the Ming Dynasty, is it so difficult to go to sea?

You have to collude with pirates.

This is mainly because it has to be done in secret and cannot be done publicly.

First of all, Guo Dan hoped to monopolize most of the trade for the time being, so as to avoid trade impacting Wanli's dominance;

Secondly, if it is to open the sea ban, there will be endless internal disputes, and the current situation of the Ming Dynasty does not know that it will be fought until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, because it involves the interests of Caoyun.

Guo Dan couldn't afford to wait, so he and Wanli hoped to avoid the imperial court and fly alone, so Wanli naturally couldn't use national power to compete for maritime interests, which could only integrate some pirate forces along the coast.

Wanli's expression was slightly restrained, and he said very cautiously: "You must be extremely careful about this matter, and you must not leak it out." ”

This emperor hooked up with pirates, and if it was spread out, it would be a shame and a big loss.

"Please also rest assured that your humble position will never disappoint your majesty."

"I believe in you."

Gaining access to the sea, for Guo Dan, this is just the beginning.

It's going to be a very long road.

And this also indicates that he will not only have to fight with the old forces inside, but also with those capitalists outside.

......

"Congratulations to my husband for finally getting his wish."

Kou Zhuansha brought a cup of tea to Guo Dan with both hands.

Guo Dan took the tea and said with a smile: "It's not so exaggerated, it's still as you wish." ”

Kou Zhuansha smiled and said: "I remember that when we were still a small tooth shop, my husband was already obsessed with overseas trade, and he never forgot it. ”

"Is there one?"

Guo Dan said with a little embarrassment.

Kou Zhuisa just smiled and said, "But I still can't understand that this overseas trade is really that important?" There are so many places in the country where we can do business today, so why take the risk? ”

She had always felt the need to go overseas, at least not for the time being, because she couldn't finish her busy work, and now it was just a number of supermarkets, and as a result, the affairs of the dental store were doubled.

Guo Dan said: "Madame is right, the domestic market is still very large, and what we occupy is only the tip of the iceberg, but the problem is that they don't have silver." ”

"No silver?"

Kou Zhuansha was stunned for a moment, and said: "Although ordinary people don't have many silver taels in their hands, those big landlords still have a lot of silver taels in their hands. ”

She paused slightly, and said: "I also know that those big landlords have a preference for hoarding silver, but it is not difficult to let them take out the silver by the means of the husband. ”

Guo smiled lightly: "Madame misunderstood what I meant, I said that they don't have silver, not that they can't earn their money, but that they are hungry for silver." ”

Kou Zhuisa looked puzzled, as if she couldn't understand it at all.

Guo Dan explained: "Madam, the difficulties we have encountered so far, are they brought to us by trading? No, and on the contrary, so far, we have only had a smooth ride in buying and selling, and we have hit a wall everywhere in other aspects.

The problem we have to solve is not to figure out how to make the money of those landlords, but to use money to solve problems other than buying and selling, since they all like silver, then as long as we control a large amount of silver, then we can use money to solve many problems outside of buying and selling.

I was anxious to start overseas trade in order to earn silver, but more often than not, to use overseas trade to solve the difficulties we encountered at home. ”

Kou Zhuansha suddenly realized.

Guo Dan's weapon is money, he has no power, no status, and the people around him now are because of money, not because of anything else, his means to solve any problem are by money, so he must first control a large amount of money.

Of course, he still concealed one thing, that is, to help Wanli loosen his bonds.

Although Wanli holds great power, he is restricted by ministers everywhere, one of the important reasons, that is, there is no money, and he can't do anything without money, once Wanli has enough silver in his hands, then the power in his hands can be well reflected.

At present, overseas trade is mainly domestic, not overseas.

However, Shen Shixing doesn't know anything about them, in fact, if you tell them directly, it is difficult for them to understand, that is, to give them 100 million taels, they just save it and leave it to future generations, and they don't know how to spend it.

Shen Shixing and they were still concerned about the vassal system and how to implement the specific matters of changing the vassal domain.

At noon on this day, Shen Shixing asked Wang Xijue to come to Jinyulou for lunch.

"At the beginning, the matter of Weihui Mansion was in a uproar, and now the sudden change of feudal domain, I am afraid that it will cause panic among the people of Tianjin Wei, so this matter must be explained clearly to Tianjin Wei, and there must be no misunderstanding." Shen Shixing walked upstairs and instructed Wang Xijue.

Wang Xijue nodded and said, "Brother Shen, please rest assured, Wang Jiaping has already written to Tianjin Wei." ”

Shen Shixing shook his head and said, "It's not enough to just write letters, I think I still have to send someone to go, it's safer." ”

While talking, they came upstairs and suddenly heard someone at the table next to them: "Brother Chen, congratulations, congratulations." ”

I heard another person say in a Tianjin voice: "What a joy? ”

The first person said: "Haven't you heard, the imperial court has decided to let King Lu change the domain of Tianjin Wei." ”

"What do you say? King Lu wants to go to our Tianjin Wei domain? ”

"Hmm."

"Oops! This is really terrible, you look at it, and then the government will have to let us pay, and you congratulate me. ”

.....

Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue stopped their steps at the same time, looked sideways, and saw two middle-aged men dressed in silk sitting on the table next to them.

"You listen to me first, King Lu is the Tianjin Wei who changed the domain, but Guo Dan will be responsible for the entire change of the domain."

I saw the person with a Tianjin accent, and suddenly turned into joy, "Is this true?" ”

"Absolutely."

"Oops! What a joy! ”

"I envy you, everywhere Guo Dan goes, not to mention you businessmen, even ordinary people can make a lot of money, this time your Tianjin Wei is going to be developed."

"Hehe... I originally wanted to come to the capital to do business, but now it seems that this matter can be slowed down, if Guo Danzhen goes to Tianjin Wei, then I won't come to the capital. ”

......

Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue couldn't help but glance at each other, their eyes were full of embarrassment, and the two walked to the third floor silently.

Wang Xijue said depressedly: "Brother Shen, it seems that we don't need to explain more, just tell them that Guo Dan will contract." ”

Shen Shixing nodded with a wry smile and said, "I really didn't expect that Guo Dan already has such a reputation among the people. ”

Wang Xijue sighed: "Regarding this matter, I have always been puzzled, why many things seem to us to be very difficult, but in the hands of Guo Dan, they can always be easily solved, are we reading all the books in vain in the past few decades." ”

Shen Shixing didn't figure it out, which is really puzzling.

And what they didn't know was that in Liang Yuan, just behind the Golden Jade Building, there were also two people discussing this matter.

These two are Fang Fengshi and Aunt Xu.

"Change the feudal domain of Tianjin?"

Aunt Xu was extremely surprised.

Fang Fengshi nodded and said: "This matter has just been decided, and the matter of changing the domain is all in the responsibility of Guo Dan, although according to the old man, Guo Dan was forced to pay for King Lu to change the domain in order to prevent King Lu from going to Weihui Mansion to take up the vassal and disrupt his arrangements in Weihui Mansion."

However, he made a suggestion that the vassal king should go to a desolate place to become a vassal domain, and the location of King Lu's change of vassal this time was Yuyang Port in Tianjinwei, which was a deserted bay. Lao Yu still remembers that the layman had mentioned that Guo Dan had to solve the problem of the vassal king, and there may even be a way to solve it, you see this matter ....... ”

"Don't hide it from Fang Shangshu, I still think that Guo Dan will definitely solve the problem of the vassal king, otherwise, he will never agree, not only to meet the treatment of all the vassal kings, but also to share the tax profits equally with those vassal kings, which must be a great article."

Aunt Xu thought for a while, but she didn't have too many clues, so she asked Fang Fengshi again, "I don't know what Fang Shangshu thinks about this matter?" ”

Fang Fengshi said: "About this Yuyang Port, the old man has inquired carefully, except for the sea, there is nothing unusual, Tianjin Salt Farm is not there, there is no profit to be made, the old man thinks Guo Dan will hope to go to sea with this?" ”

"Out to sea?"

Aunt Xu's beautiful eyes widened, and a blonde and blue-eyed face suddenly flashed in her mind, and said, "Franco." ”

Fang Fengshi was stunned and said, "What kind of Franciscan?" ”

Aunt Xu was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "Fang Shangshu expected that he should be right, Guo Dan is very likely to plan to go to sea and carry out overseas trade, which has huge profits, but at present, only Yuegang is allowed to conduct overseas trade, but Yuegang is too far away from Weihui Mansion, and Tianjin is not only near the sea, but also a transit place for the canal, and the river is accessible in all directions, if Guo Dan wants to carry out overseas trade, then Tianjin is the best location." ”

Fang Fengshi asked again: "So is he going to sea or to solve the problem of the vassal king?" ”

"He has to solve the problem of the vassal king. A desolate place? Aunt Xu frowned slightly, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Do you think he wants to place the vassal king overseas, to carry out overseas trade, overseas islands are very important." ”

At this moment, a servant walked over and handed Aunt Xu a letter, "Layman, this is a letter just sent from Weihui Mansion. ”

"Weihui Mansion?"

Aunt Xu took the letter, didn't open it, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect them to arrive so soon." ”