Eun Jun looked down on Cao Yuying at first, and even teased Cao Yuying in a different way, but now he suddenly found that it was also beneficial to let Cao Yuying report the situation to several military ministers on his behalf, because as long as the edicts and recitals involving the affairs of the Yi had to go through the hands of Cao Yuying, the foreman of the military machine Zhang Jing, the emperor felt that there was no need to let the internal affairs office give the "Houyi Hall" a bill, but ordered Cao Yuying, who was "walking on the Houyi Hall", to communicate directly with Han Xiufeng, the "big shopkeeper of the Houyi Hall".

For Eun Jun, this means that he no longer has to enter the palace before dawn as before, no longer has to get up early, no longer suffer from freezing, and no longer have to toss back and forth in the wind and rain.

Cao Yuying also likes the difference of "walking on the Houyi Hall", after all, such a confidential event is not only not only not a chance for others to participate, but they can't even think of it. Not only did Eunjun change into ordinary clothes in the carriage after "getting off work" every day, and he came to the bookstore to sit for a while before going home, and even proposed to let the carriage of the 'Houyitang' take him to and from work on the grounds of secrecy.

Although "Houyoutang" is not a yamen, the silver "allocated" by the Qingxian family is as much as 10,000 taels per year, which is equivalent to the river work of the Yongding River Yamen for more than half a year.

No one would think that there is a lot of silver, not to mention that it is normal to have more errands and more officials, Cao Yuying not only laughed at it, but also became a person of "Houyitang".

Thinking of the two edicts in her arms, Cao Yuying was extremely excited, and hurried to the bookstore as soon as she got off work, and as soon as she walked into the courtyard, she asked the big man on duty today to invite Han Xiufeng, Eunjun and Qingxian.

Han Xiufeng thought that there was something urgent, so he had to carefully return the eldest daughter who had just been hugged for a while to Qin'er, and came to the bookstore in the back garden because there were four more Lan Ling guards who were more heavily guarded than before.

"Lord Cao, what is the matter? Seeing your radiant appearance should be a happy event. ”

"It's not a happy event for me alone, it's a happy event for the big guys."

"So we all have a share?" Han Xiufeng sat down and asked with a smile.

"This is nature, I will read it to you."

Cao Yuying smiled, opened the edict that Zhang Jing had to transcribe before getting off work, and read it in a frustrated voice: "...... The Yi presents a flexible fold, and all the articles opened are absurd, and must be refuted layer by layer, so as to put an end to its insatiable demand! For example, in the section on dealing with Chinese magistrates, there is an agreed system, and local officials have their own duties, so how can they be less than meeting wherever they should go. As for renting and buying the foundations of houses and transporting and selling goods, they should also follow the Old Covenant, and let them be built wherever they want, and they should come and go as they pleased. Moreover, the Yangtze River is not a place where Yi ships should go, and coastal fishing and mining have nothing to do with trade.

It has always been said that taxes are paid or silver, or foreign silver, and it has been pursued for a long time, and it has never been said that gold is useless. Even China's money and grain have not been paid with money. It is also known as the temporary storage of goods, which is guarded by the merchant and the Chinese customs customs, which is not even more reasonable. Jingshi is an important place, Tianjin is adjacent to Jifu, and the chieftain wants to send Yi people to station in the trade, which is particularly arrogant! The so-called opium tax payment and the desire to enter the provincial capital of eastern Guangdong are particularly hateful. The rest of the articles, compared to the taste chief, are more important to the overall situation, and they must be refuted according to the paragraph, and they should be refused!

Recently, whether the magistrate has judged unfairness, he is allowed to investigate the governor and handle it impartially. Shanghai bandits are making trouble, trade is difficult, if the Yi merchants are tired because of this, they want to avoid tax arrears, I care for China and foreign countries, and Rouyuan is far away, it is not difficult to reduce or reduce it a little. However, the extent to which the reduction should be made shall also be ascertained by the governor of the province. As for the tea tax in Guangdong, it is said that two cents per quintal are indiscriminately extracted, and there is no case to be examined in Tianjin, so it must be handled by the governor of Guangxi and Guangzhou.

The above three paragraphs can still be allowed to be investigated. In addition, all paragraphs are refuted! Chonglun and others are their own will, and they are told according to reason. On the one hand, he was allowed to play on his behalf, and on the other hand, he was ordered to return to Guangdong, if he insisted on refusing to turn back, he could also be allowed to go to Shanghai, and Yiliang and others would handle it at their discretion, but they should not allow it rashly, and always return to Guangdong, so that it was appropriate, and Keyun Tianjin was not comparable to the five mouths, this time the Yi trekking through the storms was to play on behalf of Gu Yun, and he repeatedly refused to comply, and then returned to Tianjin, and he could not treat each other with courtesy as this time......

Han Xiufeng reacted, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "This reasonable, sonorous, and powerful edict is from Brother Ziyu, right?" ”

"This edict was indeed drafted by Yuying, but Prince Gong, Lord Peng, and Lord Du have also repaired several places."

Cao Yuying smiled, picked up another edict, and read it again: "...... If Chonglun, Wen Qian, and others can follow this enlightenment, they will definitely be able to convince the heart of the Yi. and the original peace treaty, all trade regulations. If it is necessary to make some changes, it will be discussed after 12 years. Mi Yajian was scheduled for July of the 24th year of Daoguang, and the Flemish was scheduled for October 24, and their exchange treaties were both in 25 years. Twelve years later, it is also far away.

If there is no such text in the terms of the peace treaty, it is called the peace treaty of ten thousand years. Bento will always be kept. That is to say, we have the grace to the nations. The words of the quasi-British are all in one. The two kingdoms of Mi and Buddha can no longer be in the past before the expiration date. Yu discussed the change. How can Yingyi follow suit for this, Chonglun, Wenqian and others can reply with reason, so as to plug the mouth of Gaiyi......"

"Master Cao's wonderful pen is full of flowers, it is really a good pen!"

"Brother Zhixing, Brother Qingxian, Brother Enjun, the reason why Cao recited these two edicts is not to show off how well Cao's article is written, but to tell the three that the Xiyi Imperial Court, which is not going to leave Dagukou, finally has a strategy, and the reason why the imperial court can come up with a strategy, the reason why the emperor ordered the Military Aircraft Department to draft such an edict with righteous words has a lot to do with the fact that our 'Houyitang' has a lot to do with the fact that Yingmi Eryi is at war with Russia, and the internal party strife and civil strife in the United States have a lot to do with it!"

Han Xiufeng had expected that he was excited because of this, but Eun Jun secretly thought that it was because of this, and thought that the emperor had already rewarded the "Houyi Hall" for making a great contribution, so he needed you to say this.

Qingxian was very excited, and took the edict with tears in his eyes and said: "Lord Cao, give these two edicts to the criminal officer, and the criminal official will take them for archiving." ”

Cao Yuying could understand his mood at this moment, handed him the copied edict, thought about it and patted him on the arm and said: "Brother Qingxian, as the saying goes, keep the clouds open and see the moon, Cao believes that as long as our 'Houyi Hall' makes a few more such great achievements, you will definitely be able to be reinstated." ”

"Lord Xie Cao's auspicious words." Qingxian bowed down and thanked him from the bottom of his heart, and then walked out of the flower hall with the edict.

Cao Yuying looked at President Qingxian, turned around and found that Han Xiufeng was thoughtful, and hurriedly said: "Big shopkeeper, I'm sorry, Yuying was a little excited just now, and she took the lead." ”

"Lord Cao misunderstood." Han Xiufeng shook his head and said solemnly: "Xiufeng is just as happy as he can find out useful information for the imperial court, and can make a modest contribution for the imperial court to deal with the unprovoked provocation of Xiyi." But after all, we are just probing, sorting and verifying, and Xiyi will not and cannot be led by our nose. This time may be able to make Xiyi retreat, but next time, it is impossible to always report good news and not bad news! ”

Cao Yuying didn't expect Han Xiufeng to say this, so she sat down and said with a smile: "Brother Zhixing, if you are not in your position, you are only responsible for inquiring, and I, Cao Yuying, are only responsible for reporting to several ministers of military aircraft, and how to make a decision is the matter of the emperor and several ministers of military aircraft." ”

"Also, if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own politics, and we don't need to worry about these major military events."

"Don't talk about this, let's talk about something else, do you have any feelings today?"

"Yes, there is news from Ningbo and Fuzhou."

"What's the news?" Cao Yuying asked eagerly.

Han Xiufeng took the tea from Ji Lu's hand, and said slowly: "Ningbo branch urgently, although Ningbo has already opened a port, but there are very few Yiyi businessmen, there are only 22 Yingyi Miyi in Ningbo, including consuls, vice consuls, interpreters and missionaries 9 accounted for 15 people, and only 7 Yishang businessmen. Because the silk and tea produced in Zhejiang are used to be shipped to Shanghai for trading, Xiyi can only wait for the silk tea to be shipped to Shanghai and can only be purchased with the permission of the Xinggang, so the Yi merchants in Ningbo have no business to do in recent years, but piracy and smuggling are rampant.

The private merchants who gathered in the ports of Shuangyu, Ligang and Cen under the jurisdiction of the Ningbo Prefecture traded privately with Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese and Italian merchants. And some lawless Portuguese, Cantonese, and Fujianese even burned, killed, looted, and committed misdeeds on the sea of Ningbo and Zhoushan.

So much so that serious traders can only spend 'black money' to hire pirates to escort them, and these pirates blatantly collect 'protection fees' from merchant ships. Because there are more and more Cantonese pirates and their strength is strong, the Portuguese pirates are suspected of being defeated in the near future, and it can be said that the maritime trade routes in Ningbo and Zhoushan have been controlled by Guangdong pirates. ”

Cao Yuying muttered: "Pirates are the disease of scabies, Xiyi is the biggest problem, and it is good that the Portuguese are driven away, even if they are not driven away by those lawless people in Guangdong, it is not impossible to let them eat dogs at sea." ”

"It would be nice if it was just like this, but according to the Ningbo branch urgent report, Yingyi actually took the opportunity to provide protection for businessmen who did serious business, as long as they paid enough ship fees and registration fees, they could fly the English flag, and it is said that more than 300 Ningbo boats and even sand boats have gone to Yingyi to register."

"That's all the way!"

"Who made the Zhejiang sailors not angry."

"What's going on in Fuzhou?" Cao Yuying thought about it and asked.

Han Xiufeng said: "The reason why Yingmi Eryi had to open a port in Fuzhou back then was because Wuyi Mountain was rich in black tea. However, due to the obstruction of local officials, the tea produced in Wuyishan was still sold to Guangdong a few years ago. Not only could the British merchants not buy tea in Fuzhou, but they also could not sell the foreign cloth and other goods that were shipped each time, so the situation in Ningbo was similar to that in previous years, there were only a dozen Yi people, most of whom were consuls, vice consuls and missionaries.

Later, the Cantonese bandits rebelled, and the land route to Guangdong to transport tea was blocked, and local tea farmers and tea merchants could only sell tea to Yi merchants. Last year, the American Qichang Foreign Bank took the lead in setting up a branch in Fuzhou, and ordered its men to go to various tea farms with heavy money to make orders, and they made a lot of money, and the foreign companies such as Jardine Matheson, Hua Kee, Qianji, Xieji, Tianxiang, and Taixing followed closely this year; as of the beginning of last month, 55 Xiyi merchant ships had gone to Fuzhou to traffic more than 100,000 quintals of tea. ”

Looking at Cao Yuying's thoughtful appearance, Han Xiufeng continued: "The Yingyi consul in Fuzhou and the British businessmen rented the foundation behind the Shuangjiang River of Nantai Tian'an Temple last month, as well as the houses in Guanyinjing and Xiajie in Cangqian Mountain, and now there are more than 70 people in Xiyi in Fuzhou. ”

"Where's the warship?"

"One in Ningbo and two in Xiamen, both of which are not ironclad steam gunboats, have a total of 31 large and small artillery pieces and more than 180 soldiers. According to the Fuzhou Branch, the two ships anchored in Xiamen will set sail for their return in the near future. ”

"Where are you going?"

"One goes back to the South Seas, and the other goes back to the United States."

"In this way, whether it is Yingyi or Meiyi, there are not many soldiers in my Qing Dynasty." Cao Yuying felt that this was the kind of affection that several adults in the Military Aircraft Department wanted, so she looked at Han Xiufeng with a smile and said: "Brother Zhixing, your big shopkeeper has a good business, and the so-called Xiucai knows the world without going out!" ”

Han Xiufeng said with a smile: "I was born as an official and a supervisor, but I don't dare to pretend to be a talent." ”

Cao Yuying finished asking what she wanted to know, hurried home to accompany her wife and children, got up and said with a smile: "Here you are again, you are not a show, you are Mr. Guigu!" ”

Thinking of what Second Master Fei had said before about the person in front of him, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but arch his hand: "Mr. Guigu sends Master Cao off!" ”