"Your Restoration Army needs to recruit 10,000 soldiers and horses in the Wa Kingdom, and it just so happens that the dog is also going to the Wa Kingdom to recruit soldiers and horses, so he will go to handle it for you. During your stay in Hue, you will think carefully about it for Ben Bo here and plan a proper way to come out. ”

He not only drew a large, thick and shiny cake for Colonel Baisoya of the Portuguese Restoration Army in front of him, but also gave them a stick. If you can't give Lao Tzu a proper explanation, don't even think about taking away any soldiers, horses, money, food, and weapons.

"Your Highness! I have a little mention yì. ”

Baisoya was a little sick and rushed to the doctor.

"Didn't Your Highness always say that there is not enough capacity to travel between your place and Europe, and the biggest shortcoming is the lack of sailors? The commander-in-chief of this army, General González, has specially recruited nearly 2,000 sailors for His Highness in the vicinity of the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar for the use of your invincible sailors. ”

"Oh? Seriously? ”

"My lord, it's true, the customs has detained all these 2,000 people in the quarantine area, and once there are no sick patients after checking, they can be resettled."

The official who knew about the incident next to him made it clear to Shou Han.

2,000 sailors can be freed up by assigning them to various ships, and these skilled sailors can also train and train those minority sailors from Burma, Tianzhu and other places, and lead the graduates of the sailor school to familiarize themselves with the business.

"If Your Highness's navy finds these sailors handy, we can assure you that at least five thousand sailors will be sent to your navy and maritime fleet every year!"

Baisoya was able to be sent by Gonzalez to Hue as a diplomatic representative for help. Naturally, he is also a figure who is full of information agencies, although he did not see the demeanor of Shouhan, but from the tone of his voice, His Royal Highness the Earl was still quite satisfied with this matter, and immediately beat the snake with the stick, and immediately stated that he would continue to provide sailors for the sea power of the Nanyue Army.

Hua Xuan was led to the living room by the two housekeepers, and there was an extremely pretty little girl who served him tea with a tea tray.

"Son, please sit down, Madame will come out."

In the courtyard where Li Muhua lived, Li Huaxuan felt a graceful and luxurious bearing, but he did not have the comfort and warmth of Yanmeier.

He smiled and thanked the little girl who threw a wink at him, but he never sat down. Watching the back of the extremely thin waist that flashed and shuffled. In his heart, he compared this little maid with the princesses of the earth that he had taken in Barisar City.

Li Muhua's room is her study and living room, and some people who know close to her come here to receive her on weekdays. Li Huaxuan was also in this room for the first time, so he had to look around.

On the table, there is a copy of the Northern Song Dynasty rubbing's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", which was given to Li Muhua in the name of the queen mother when Wang Dehua came to Hue before. Although this thing is not rare in the palace. However, Li Muhua has been practicing calligraphy hard for the past two years, collecting all kinds of scriptures everywhere. And I like to collect different precious rubbings. This one thing also fits her hobby. The stone inkstone at the end of the side is purple and red, but there is a "robin eye" in the middle of the upper end, and the color is light yellow. Hints of greenery. Two dragons are engraved on the inkstone, and a pair of dragon heads are facing the "robin eyes", like playing with pearls. The back of the inkstone is engraved with a handwritten inscription of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and the inscription is "the imperial title of the second year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty".

Next to the inkstone, there is a Northern Song Dynasty Ru kiln secret color pen wash, a Yongle year of the red inlaid jade pen holder, the embedded picture is the east slope moonlit night tour red cliff. On the table, there is also a small frangipani tribute paper made in the fifth year of Xuande, with a branch of ink plum, which has not yet been painted.

Li Huaxuan looked at the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall with his hands behind his back. The calligraphy and paintings in Li Muhua's room are also often replaced. Today, there are only two paintings hanging in this room, both of which are masterpieces collected from Beijing: one is Wang Mian's "Returning to the Pastoral" and the other is Tang Yin's "Xiangcun Water Town". The latter is a banner only half a foot wide and more than six feet long, with thick and dark ink and vivid embellishments; a number of willows, swaying the river stem; Xiaoqiao Village City, haunted by smoke and water. There is a five-character ancient poem by Tang Bohu on the painting. Xiangcun is where the great calligrapher, painter and poet Shen Shitian lived. After Ishida's death, Tang Yin went to hang him, and saw that the mountains and rivers were still in the boat, and the good friends were passed away forever.

"If the third prince can get into the eyes of the law, please take it back and carefully read the question."

Li Muhua's voice came from behind him coldly, which startled Li Huaxuan.

"Say hello to my aunt."

"That's it."

Li Muhua never wanted to hear the words related to fame in her heart, she has always been very stubborn that she married Li Shouhan with the dignity of a princess of a country, and brought the people of the land to marry here, but she could only be an aunt's wife, and she was really unconvinced.

"Auntie, I was sent by my father to go to the Japanese country to do business, and I want to ask my aunt. Did you bring anything for Big Brother? The fleet is just going to stop in Taiwan for supplies, and I'm going to see my eldest brother too. If my aunt has anything to bring, please give it to Hua Xuan. ”

Li Muhua has always been domineering and domineering, which makes her children stay away from her. Li Huaxuan came today, and he also came hard-headed.

In the past few years, Li Huabao has been cultivating and farming in Taiwan, immigrating to train and squeeze sugar, gradually turning the people in the mountains and forests into naturalized people one by one, and turning the camphor trees that have been silent for thousands of years in the mountains and forests into camphor, adding a new source of wealth to the Southern Guangdong Army. It is also quite rich to take care of the place that was originally wild and dangerous in the eyes of others.

These women in the back house, whenever they are chatting, will intentionally or unintentionally compare their children, and Li Huabao is undoubtedly the killer weapon in the hands of Li Muhua. The first is the eldest son, and the second is the contribution he has made, and the merits he has established are incomparable to those of several young sons.

"Your eldest brother doesn't need to carry anything there, someone went to Taiwan a few days ago, and I already brought some for him. But when you see your eldest brother, you should ask him for advice and do your best to do the mission assigned by your father. Li Muhua slowly lengthened the tone of his voice, which really made Li Huaxuan a little bored. But I have to listen, and I have to make a very serious and careful look.

"However, if you go to the Wa Kingdom to recruit new soldiers, I have something for you to do."

"Auntie, if you have anything, just tell me to come down." Li Huaxuan said this with confidence. With the 20,000 soldiers to be recruited in hand, it is not impossible that Li Muhua plans to get the princess of the Tokugawa family to be a rough girl.

At present, a large part of Japan's economy, trade and finance depends on trade with the Nanyue Army and the remittances sent back by the people who worked and farmed in Nanzhong.

And, is it. If you offend Li Huaxuan. When recruiting new soldiers, he intentionally or unintentionally reduced some of the soldiers in a certain place, and those ronins were gone, which would inevitably affect the rule of the local daimyo. With the ideas of the daimyo. I wish that this group of wild cubs who wandered around the streets and villages with knives all day long were all recruited by the Nanyue Army. Send it to the cannon fire and consume it!

These guys went out to fight as soldiers. Not only has the security situation in his territory greatly improved, but a large amount of remittances have been sent back, which has improved the financial and economic situation in his territory. This kind of thing that kills multiple birds with one stone, that daimyo is unwilling?

If Li Huaxuan named and named the princess in front of Zhu Chiyo's classmates, I am afraid that Zhu Chiyo would immediately wrap the princess in a quilt and send it to his place of stay, and then send a few Burmese bells filled with dragon essence to cheer His Royal Highness.

Not to mention that such an approach was too humiliating, compared to the fact that the Grand Dukes of Moscow wrapped their wives and daughters in blankets and sent them to the Golden Horde's bed, and they had to be whipped at the door of the Great Tent. (Huh?) This seems to be the Mongolian version of the husband's current offense? And there are whips, insults, abuses, and it seems that there is disharmony again. Which classmate can extend the compilation of a script and sell it to adult film companies in Europe and the United States. I just want the Great Khan's whip to be beaten harder, so that I can return to my own territory and continue to do my power. Therefore, compared with the Golden Horde faced by the Grand Duke of Moscow, the generals and daimyo of the Japanese state still retained their dignity and personality at least in terms of diplomatic etiquette. Those daimyo had already washed their princesses, wrapped them in silk quilts, and waited in line for the generals to oppose sending their daughters to bed! As long as His Royal Highness can take a little care of his own territory when recruiting soldiers, these efforts will be worth it.

Those Japanese volunteers who occasionally appeared in the market and returned to their hometowns for various reasons had a very good feeling to understand what it means to be rich and noble and not return to their hometowns, such as walking at night in brocade clothes. In the eyes of the neighbors of the past, a lot of money, oh, wrong, it's a thousand pounds. In Japan, gold and silver are worthless, and grain rice is valuable. Please have a meal with your neighbors on the left and eat the best white rice!

These former ronin, and now the idols of young people, already have wives at home, and some people are in a hurry to send their daughters to be concubines. In order to enjoy the superior living conditions of others. And the daughters of these volunteer soldiers' families are as characteristic as Sister Feng's second aunt, and in the eyes of others, they are also fairies who compete in the High Heavenly God Plain. The people who came to the door to propose relatives almost quarreled with each other and used force.

For the sake of a change in economic status.

The reason why the Japanese volunteers are known for their tenacity and ability to fight, endure hardships and stand hard work, are cheap and good, and are cost-effective, in addition to being able to get a high salary during their service, and being able to loot and slaughter on a large scale to obtain property and military merits when the military order does not stipulate it, there is also a military discipline that is not very noticeable, but it is extremely cruel.

"If one person violates discipline, after being sent back to his hometown, the local recruitment post will be reduced by twice as much."

There was a precedent in which the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom were sent back to their hometowns for violating military discipline and were unanimously scolded and looked down upon by the neighbors from the lords to the neighborhoods.

The whole family committed suicide by seppuku.

On the one hand, there is the glory and pleasure of listening to the greetings, and on the other hand, the pain and horror faced after being repatriated. Those soldiers from Kyushu, Honshu, Shikoku and other places, even if the casualties reached more than 40%, they still fought tenaciously to the death and never retreated.

If you die in battle, you will have a pension, and you will retreat without permission, and what awaits you will be a hellish situation.

It is precisely because they are optimistic about these characteristics that Li Huaxuan and Gonzalez invariably want to go to Japan to recruit some cannon fodder to supply consumption.

The difference is that Li Huaxuan recruited not only cannon fodder, but also overseers who helped him enslave and squeeze the peoples of the newly conquered regions of South Asia. A road from Bengal to Shigatse is to be built. Roads in Bangladesh can only be built by locally recruited labourers.

However, with the characteristics of those lazy and accustomed natives, I am afraid that this road may not be able to complete the construction of the roadbed when Li Huaxuan's grandson comes. So, the bamboo knives and leather whips of these devils came in handy.

Unlike Li Huaxuan's purpose, the purpose of the Restoration Army led by Gonzalez is much simpler. They just want this group of guys who are blushing when they go to the battlefield, and don't turn enemies and themselves into corpses, to fight for themselves in Europe, to open one fortress after another, and to pave their way to the nobility with their bones.

Turks in the Ottoman Empire. Spaniard. The French, the Dutch, and the Habsburg nations were their potential enemies.

However, Li Muhua asked Li Huaxuan to help her in the Wa Kingdom, but she didn't know what to do.

Could it be that the third lady also plans to recruit some princesses of the Japanese kingdom to be maids in the inner house? Unlikely!? With her kind of character. It's like a lioness. Turn the Shouhan into her domain. Patrol back and forth every day to prevent other females from entering.

The day before yesterday, the two concubines sent by Wu Sizang heard that she was looking for something in her house. beat a mother-in-law with forty bamboo canes, and almost lost the mother-in-law's life.

"Bring me that jewelry box from my dresser."

A mother-in-law was ordered to fetch a gold-painted box.

There are dozens of pieces of hairpin ring head jewelry, and there is also a rice ticket of 20,000 stone japonica rice.

"I heard that people who came and went to the Wa Kingdom outside said that the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom was actually a girl. It is also quite difficult to come to a weak woman to be the head of this country, not to mention that people are also very meritorious to our Li family, and they are quite attentive. Whether it is trade or the recruitment of labor soldiers, it is extremely hard. Although we all acted according to the rules, we never treated her badly. But as an elder, I always have to have some heart. Now that you have arrived in Kyoto, you are going to visit her and give her this little bit of my heart. Tell her that if there is anything you need, whether it is money or food or something else, just say it. Don't grieve yourself. ”

Listening to Li Muhua's words around the clouds and mountains, Li Huaxuan immediately heard a trace of strangeness from his words. On the surface, as the third lady of Ning Yuanbo, she expressed her concern for the leader of the next domain, but there must be some reason for this concern, right? There is no love without a reason, and there is no hate without a reason. Why did she never care about the well-being of the Siamese royal family? Didn't she ask about the hometown situation of those Tianzhu orchids? Haven't you asked the seventh aunt about the situation at home Ao Lei Yilan?

Today, I want to express my concern for distant vassals and my own bearing?

Li Huaxuan has been doing errands outside for more than a year, and after coming out of the mansion, after owning the world alone, he knows more and more clearly about the affairs in the mansion than before.

Regarding the open and secret battles between the wives of Shouhan, and the issue of the candidate for the throne of the prince that is gradually being raised intentionally or unintentionally, there are cronies around him who have briefed him.

Among them, there must be some private gossip that is not visible.

For example, the matter of the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom mentioned by Li Muhua at the moment.

In private, someone quietly told Li Huaxuan that when the eldest young marshal led his troops to the Wa Kingdom to sign a treaty of commerce and navigation and help the Tokugawa family quell the Kyushu rebellion, the emperor's ministers washed the then Emperor Koko and stuffed it into the bed of the eldest young marshal. This is not a big deal, this generation of barbarian state, although it is known as the influence of Chinese civilization for a long time, but in the heart it is still a shameless barbarian. But what's worse is that the eldest young marshal is Yang Youji and Xiao Li Guang, and he actually hit it.

"Right now, the son of Emperor Mingzheng is actually the seed that our young marshal sprinkled in her fertile field back then!"

Connecting this information, cause and effect with Li Muhua's words today, Li Huaxuan can probably guess eighty or ninety.

What is quite meritorious, quite careful? If it weren't for Emperor Namingzheng giving birth to a son to his eldest brother, Li Muhua would never have said this. As for what is quite difficult to say, it is extremely attentive, and it is even more of an excuse.

If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Mingzheng gave birth to a child who was a grandson, he was the first male in the Li family's generation (it can be said that this group of young masters sowed seeds on maids and female slaves for the time being. And with the background of the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom and the Tokugawa Shogun, it is also a bargaining chip when everyone discusses the candidates for the throne together in the future, without these factors, would Li Muhua be so meticulous? It's about sending jewelry and rice?

Li Huaxuan also listened to the maid in his mother's room talk about it, and for more than a year, Li Muhua kept sending people back and forth between Hue, Guangzhou and Waguo, and he didn't know what he was doing.

Now it seems that most of them sent money, food, cloth and other things to the mother and son, so that they could live without worry about food and clothing in the Japanese country, and wait for the right opportunity to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors.

After figuring out all the tricks in this, Li Huaxuan immediately smiled and motioned to Qin Bingwei beside him to take the jewelry box, "Auntie, please relax." When I go to the country this time, I can leave other things to the people below, but this emperor and general are what I must see! Thank them for their contributions to my Ningyuan Bofu over the years! (To be continued......)