"Tell me, what are you willing to give for it?"

The seductive voice rang in his ears, and the longing in his eyes could be clearly seen in the glass, and Adriana only felt her cheeks hot in the face of his burning gaze.

What does he want?

It seems to be ...... As her breathing became rapid, and her chest rose and fell violently, the seductive voice rang in her ears again.

"Would you like to sell it to Europe?"

What the?

Sell to Europe!

Adriana, who was short of breath and was thinking about another "price", looked at the man in surprise.

"You want me to sell it to Europe?"

"Adriana, are you willing to miss such an opportunity?"

As he spoke, Zhu Guoqiang hooked her chin with his fingers, stared at her sapphire-like eyes, and asked softly.

"I ......"

Facing the man who was close at hand, Adriana's heart was churning with countless thoughts, this is indeed a good opportunity, if she seizes this opportunity, she may even become the richest woman in the whole of the Netherlands. But what does this opportunity require her?

Is it beauty, or is it?

In fact, as a woman, when she and her sister came to Asia, her sister told her that the only choice for women is to marry a man with status and wealth, only in this way can they maintain their lives, and she did the same, if he hadn't died of illness, perhaps, she would have returned to Amsterdam with her husband like her sister and re-entered high society, but now?

It's all just fantasy.

But now the prince of Ming has brought her a new opportunity. Staring into the prince's eyes, Adriana surprisingly didn't find the kind of fire that other men had when they looked at her, scorching but more just appreciative.

After thinking for a moment, she said.

"What are you trying to achieve? His Royal Highness the Prince"

"Do you know the East India Company?"

The answer, of course, was yes, after all, her husband was a senior employee of the Dutch East India Company, and so was his brother-in-law, who knew him very well, although he did not know it well.

"Do you want to beat him?"

"No, I think now we can have some kind of commercial cooperation, Adriana, war is not the only option."

"But you killed everyone in the city of Geranza!"

"No, it was killed by the Japanese!"

Zhu Guoqiang directly shirked.

"Besides, we gave them the opportunity to surrender, they refused, the Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, pay attention to faithfulness, say that the chicken dog does not stay, then the chicken dog does not stay......"

Looking at the woman in front of him with a smile, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"Now, we can give the Dutch another chance, of course, they can refuse, but you have to understand what the price of refusal is!"

After that, Zhu Guoqiang kissed her mouth-watering red lips fiercely, completely ignoring her struggles, only domineering possession.

What is the cost of rejection?

Is he also warning me?

In the face of the prince's domineering, Adriana had no power to refuse at all, and could only passively cater to it.

……

General's Mansion, back garden.

Although the scenery of the back garden of the General's Mansion is far less than that of the garden in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also unique. Especially now, the melodious and graceful sound of the piano makes people listen like a spring breeze.

In the pavilion, Zhu Guoqiang was lying on his side on the soft couch, listening to Li Xiangjun stroking the piano with Liu Ruyi and Li Shiniang, while the two sisters Bian Sai and Bian Min were playing Xiao there...... Well, the ensemble of Qin Xiao is indeed inexhaustible.

The beautiful and agile sound of the piano flows out from the fingers, like a thin flow through the heart, listening to the melodious music Zhu Guoqiang's heart is beautiful, this enjoyment is simply a man's paradise!

However, he believed that if the officials in the palace saw this scene, they would definitely frown slightly-what does it mean that the dignified prince is obsessed with beauty?

But what's the point if you don't chase beauty?

At this moment, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, Li Xiangjun looked faint, and nodded lightly, but when she looked up, when she saw Liu Ruis and Shi Niang, who were sitting on the soft couch under the pavilion and snuggling up to serve the master, there was always a little loss in those eyes.

Since entering the mansion, the prince has not seen her alone, let alone ...... When she was in a lost mood, she saw the prince waving softly.

didn't say a word, Zhu Guoqiang sent Li Xiangjun and the others away.

Li Xiangjun is indeed very beautiful, and he is definitely above Liu Ru in terms of appearance, but he has not had the heart to fold that flower recently. His eyes stared at the outside of the pavilion and couldn't help but wander.

Seeing that Ye casually sent Li Xiangjun and the Bian sisters, Liu Ru couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then glanced at each other with Li Siniang, chuckling and pinching Ye's shoulders:

"Master, I seem to have something on my mind today, when I listened to the music just now, I seemed to be distracted, is it that Sister Xiangjun doesn't play well? Why don't you let Shi Niang play music for you next time? ”

Although he knew that there was a little bit of caution among women in this pun, Zhu Guoqiang shook his head and said.

"That'...... I'm not in the mood to look at it! ”

Standing up, Zhu Guoqiang walked to the pavilion, and then looked at the small lake outside the pavilion, this small lake was not dug manually, but originally existed, and even the General's Mansion was built on the lake, but compared to a few months ago, the small lake at this time was about to dry up - judging from the drought on the shore, the water level had decreased by more than one meter.

"It?"

Liu Ru was puzzled, followed the eyes of the prince and saw the small lake that was gradually drying up, and then listened to the prince of the world.

"Since we arrived in Dalian, there has been no rain here, the crops and trees in the field are relying on the little snow water in winter, if it weren't for that little snow water, I'm afraid I don't know what the drought looks like in this field, and how many days can the snow water last?"

Shaking his head and sighing lightly, Zhu Guoqiang silently walked out of the pavilion, came to the lake, stared at the dry and cracked mouth by the lake, and naturally thought of Shandong, thought of Guannei, where I am afraid that it is the same for a few months without rain, in such a year of great drought, what will happen to the people?

What a drought!

And the plague!

Climate change in the late Ming Dynasty will also lead to epidemics of plague. Due to the emergence of large-scale displaced people, the plague was also increasingly rampant in the late Ming Dynasty, and the historiography generally believes that the plague that swept through North China in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was the last straw that overwhelmed the Ming Dynasty, and there is even a saying that "rats died in the Ming Dynasty".

Drought can be relieved, but what about the plague?

Standing by the lake like this, Zhu Guoqiang thought of another question - whether Shandong strictly implemented the methods he formulated.