Li Luoyou listened expressionlessly to these conditions, which were very harsh, but they were even more lenient than he expected. The conditions were the same as those he had used to negotiate with Australians: demanding, meticulous, detail-oriented, and articulate. It is full of a strong self-confidence based on its own strength.

Xu Tianqi went on to point out that the Ming officers and soldiers who were repatriated to their hometowns were counted and repatriated one by one according to the roster of the Ming army.

Li Luoyou had no choice but to raise an objection: The soldiers did not say that whether it was a soldier or a miscellaneous soldier, or even the personal family members of the officers, they were all included in the salary register, but there were still many people in the army who were not registered, including the husbands and servants who were temporarily recruited to accompany the army, and the servants of civil and military officials.

"If this can be screened and brought from the mainland, and I am willing to return to Guangdong, we will let it go. If it is local to Qiongzhou Prefecture, or if he is unwilling to return to the mainland, he can stay. ”

Xu Tianqi played the principle of voluntary repatriation, and Li Luoyou expressed his intentions. Whether or not those who are not registered can go back is not a matter of concern to the bigwigs in Guangdong.

Zuihou is the question of the disposal of prisoners. Of course, the Senate was reluctant to release the captives, all of whom were large haute laborers, but the captured civil and military officials had no interest in long-term hospitality. Therefore, the Guangdong side is allowed to ransom people, whether it is the government or the captive family. Their value is determined according to the size of their official position. In addition to his value, each prisoner had to pay a penny of silver per day for food and lodging according to the number of days he spent in the Lingao prisoner of war camp.

Li Luoyou nodded and agreed: The government will not give this money, but these officials always have a few dollars in their families, and it is not a problem to pay the ransom.

In this way, the issue of disposing of the remnants of He Rubin in the Qiongshan and Haikou areas has been decided, and the entire plan can be implemented as long as Li Fengjie agrees. Li Luoyou sent his cronies to send a secret letter to Guangzhou about the specific contents of the peace talks. As a result, there will be no suspense, and Li Fengjie has no choice, only by agreeing to these conditions can he save the remnants of the defeated generals from the disaster.

The talks had been graduated, and both sides were secretly relieved that the blockade war that had not been fought in the Qiongshan Siege was also an energy-consuming thing for the Crossing Group, and now that things had a definite conclusion, and they had also obtained what they most hoped for peace.

Because Li Luoyou is a businessman, many things are separated from officialdom after all, and it is inconvenient to run. Li Luoyou discussed Li Fengjie before leaving, and asked Lu Yizhong to be the contact person in the center. Lu Yizhong is very familiar with Guangdong officialdom, and many people are familiar with the way. Moreover, after he was captured, he was greedy for life and afraid of death and was forced to write a letter for peace talks, after Wang Zunde died, his staff team scattered, but Li Xijue was recruited by Li Fengjie and entered the governor's curtain. Therefore, Lu Yizhong wrote a letter to seek peace, and Li Fengjie also mastered it. A person who has lost his backers and the stain of history can only be at their mercy unless he is willing to retire.

"1 Is Mr. Lu a liaison? Lord Fujun is really insightful. Xu Tianyi smiled and agreed.

Li Luoyou also laughed a few times with "haha", and he despised these staff and officials very much in his heart. The two then had a preliminary discussion on the next step of in-depth cooperation. Li Luoyou's enthusiasm for building guns and cannons for the Ming Dynasty and refreshing armaments had diminished a lot: many of the Hongyi cannons he had made for Guangdong in his workshop in Foshan had not been transported to Liaodong: some of them were lost in the Battle of Qiongzhou, some of them were lost in the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, and the rest were transported to Fujian for Xiong Wencan, and Zheng Zhilong was equipped.

This made him very disappointed, coupled with the second battle of the Australians in Guangdong, the power of the Australian cannon was far above the Hongyi cannon, which made Li Luoyou very disappointed and almost wanted to stop there.

Unexpectedly, Shandong had a new order, this time it was the request of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai. The Catholic governor was training a new army in Denlai, and a number of Portuguese were appointed as teachers. Sun Yuanhua organized his own people in Shandong to cast Hongyi cannons under the guidance of the Portuguese, but because of the use of coal as fuel in pig iron smelting in the north, pig iron contained sulfur and had a brittle texture, which was far less good than the artillery cast in the south, so he asked Guangdong to provide more cannons. There is money to be made, and Li Luoyou is of course unwilling to give up. What's more, Shandong is an important window for him to operate trade with the Qing Dynasty, and Sun Yuanhua is a parishioner. Whether it is interest or reason, you have to agree.

Li Luoyou once again caught the request for the purchase of Australian cannons or production equipment, but Xu Tianyi only responded vaguely, unwilling to express his position, and the opinions of the Senate on the sale of arms have not been unified. Li Luoyou saw that the other party was unwilling to take over, and knew that there was no hope for this matter, so he couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Tianqi caught the Liaodong trade in his words, saying that the crossing group was very interested in participating in the Liaodong trade and hoped to get Li Luoyou's help.

originally thought that Li Luoyou would agree, but he didn't expect him to look embarrassed and unwilling to take over for a long time. Xu Tianyi asked again and again, and Fang slowly spoke:

"I have no choice but to trade with Jiannu," he said, "You are trading here, and it's not that you can't make money, so why do you need to trade with Jiannu?" ”

"When we do business, of course, the more business partners we have, the better."

Li Luoyou tried to persuade them to abandon the idea. First of all, the distance is long, and the transportation of goods is inconvenient. High risk on the road. The Ming Dynasty imposed a trade embargo on the Manchus, and trading with the Manchus was illegal smuggling. Normal trade still had to deal with the layers of government records, not to mention such illegal business, whether it was Li Luoyou's trade from Shandong to Liaodong, or Shanxi merchants' trade with the Manchus through the Mongols in the Zhangjiakou area, many officials of the Ming Dynasty made a lot of money.

"How do you know the pain here?" Li Luo couldn't help but exaggerate the hardships involved, such as the rough seas and rough seas that had to be experienced when sailing on the sea. When transporting by land, soldiers who encounter bandits often lose both people and goods. As for the buying and selling of goods, they were also picked, blackmailed, and detained by Manchu officials.

Xu Tianqi did not refute, he knew that Li Luoyou did not want them to interfere in the trade with Liaodong, not only because of the attempt to monopolize profits, but also because he was afraid that the Australians would be "capital enemies". The Australians did not have his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, so they would inevitably make money and sell anything, and at that time, everything such as grain, iron tools, and even gunpowder cannons could be sold to the Manchus.

"I've heard that shoes are extremely hidden." Xu Tianqi suddenly asked.

"1 Indeed." Li Luo's mind moved, could it be that they were going to sell grain to the Tartars? Tartars are willing to pay a stone of ten taels or even twenty taels to buy grain, which is a profitable thing. For this reason, Shanxi merchants did not hesitate to buy grain at a large price in the Central Plains, where grain was originally hidden, and sold it to the Manchus. Australians want to come to this hand too? They could buy grain from Guangdong and then go to Liaodong to resell it and make a fortune. For this reason, he hurriedly added, "However, the officers and soldiers in the Denglai area are very closely checked, and grain is not allowed to cross the sea." ”

"Hehe", Xu Tianqi laughed, "Li Da shopkeeper! We know your thoughts! However, you should always know what the situation of the people who have been captive by shoes. ”

How did he not know this? Li Luoyou ran through Liaodong in order to ransom people, and he was clear about the living conditions of the Han people who were taken captive as slaves. Not to mention all kinds of suffering, many people can't even eat enough, and they are completely in a state of half-starvation and half-fullness.

"It's miserable." Li Luo is restless.

"I heard that the Manchu Qing Dynasty also sent women and children to Mongolia in exchange for cattle and sheep, and a half-year-old child in exchange for a sheep, you don't necessarily know about it, right?"

"1 I have heard of it."

"We traded with the Manchus not for their gold and silver, but for the population. It's the people of the Ming Dynasty who were abused and sold by shoes! Xu Tianqi was righteous and awe-inspiring, "You say this business can't be done?" ”

"What? Are you going to Liaodong to ransom the people? Li Luoyou was taken aback and stood up. Suddenly dizzy, he sat back in the chair, and the personal servant who was waiting next to him quickly took out the medicinal wine and poured him a few sips, which made him settle down.

He made up his mind, and said that the Australians were really rich with a lot of money, and they never thought about such a thing. He is not a good deed, after all. This kind of thing can't be done even if you scatter all your wealth. Australians are so calculating, how can they suddenly be so generous? The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Xu Tianqi saw that he had a puzzled look on his face, so he explained: What they want is the population taken away by the Manchus. All the people who were traded would be transported to Qiongzhou for resettlement.

I see! Li Luoyou thought to himself, Qiongzhou is vast and sparsely populated, they want to farm the land, start the field, and train the troops themselves, and they need people everywhere, no wonder the idea hit the head of the Manchu Qing.

In any case, it is much better for those poor people to fall into the hands of Australians than to stay in the hands of shoes. Thinking of this, Li Luoyou's original attitude was relaxed. He now promised to help establish contacts between the Australians and Manchu officials in the Liaodong trade.

Xu Tianqi thought to himself that this trick really worked, of course, whether it only accepted the population as a means of payment was a later story. According to the push side of the financial sector, Liaodong should be in inflation at this time, and the value of silver is depreciating sharply.

In addition to the population, Xu Tianqi also offered to buy horses, cattle and sheep from the Manchu ruling areas. Especially horses. This is the cargo that Lingao urgently needs at the moment.

"The matter of horses, in fact, as long as you follow the path of the Guan Ning army, you can buy it from the Mongols." Li Luoyou said, "But the transportation is inconvenient, a small amount is okay, a large group of horses all the way south, I am afraid that it will be intercepted halfway." In addition, it was difficult to supply food for the horses along the road. ”

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