Chapter 738: The thousand-year-old fox is embarrassed by Wanli
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"Mr. Lin, how do you think this is the place where the negotiation between you and me is located?"
A sedan chair and a carriage entered a place in the city of Nanjing under strict guard. Here, it was the original Liang Guogong Mansion of Li Shouhan, and it was also the place where the general was located. In front is the yamen, and in the back is the inner house.
Hong Chengchou's sedan chair was seized from the city of Nanjing, a large green tweed sedan chair carried by 16 people. The embroidery on the sedan bar, sedan clothes, and sedan curtain are all exquisite and abnormal. The wind-milled copper sedan bar was wiped bright, and the thirty-two sturdy sedan chairmen were dressed in short clothes, with a silk handkerchief on their heads, and a small gown on the placket, with a red "Hong" word in the white moonlight on it, and in the moonlight behind them, a large seal of the gate defense was stamped on it, which was the general of Duoduo's prestige. With this guard on their backs, the officials and soldiers in Nanjing City all retreated when they saw it. The leggings on the legs are very structured, and the new shoes on the feet are neatly cleaned up.
Under the escort of 200 Baya soldiers, this sedan chair was led in front and entered the gate of the old marshal's mansion. The sedan chair drivers got off the sedan chair and the sedan chair in the sound of Goshha's password, and invited Hong Chengchou, a scholar and Jiangnan ambassador, to come out.
Behind his sedan chair, Lin Kun's carriage was also in the limelight. The frame made of good stainless steel, the carriage is made of rosewood and huanghuali, and the pattern is inlaid on the carriage with tortoiseshell luodian and other things. And the most eye-catching thing is Lin Kun's carriage, which is actually inlaid with large pieces of glass on all sides, and through the veil on the glass window, you can vaguely see the beautiful scenery in the car.
When the door opened, two black slaves with skin as black as a charcoal core immediately took a stool from the wheel, put it on the door, and asked their master to step on it. Lin Kun lifted herself from the lap of a tall, but enchanting Kenyan slave girl, tidied up her robe, and then walked out of the carriage with the support of the accompanying slave maid.
"This guy! You'll be blessed! "Rao is Hong Chengchou was a very popular minister in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but after seeing Lin Kun's daily life, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and scolded in his heart.
After crossing the river, the general strictly ordered all armies and battalions not to disturb the mansion, property, and family of Liang Guogong and his old man, as well as the families of the officers and men of the Nanyue Army. Those who violate the order will be decided! The members of the same team beheaded the prison marquis, and the superior official Zuo was deprecated as Baoyi Ahha! The chief officer's staff blames eighty military sticks! Therefore, every grass and tree here is the same as when Liang Guogong went out of the city. Xia Guan also ordered people to sprinkle and clean up here every day, so that Liang Guogong would return in the future, and there would be a peaceful residence. β
Before the formal negotiations began, Hong Chengchou had already begun to dig a pit for Lin Kun.
"It is the Meixiang Building on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and it has not been damaged brick or tile. It was when Miss Li's mother and daughter returned, and it was also when the swallow returned to know the old nest. β
Lin Kun didn't say much, just fanned the wind with the fan in his hand, "I didn't expect Nanjing to be so hot." The people of Huguang are so difficult to endure, I don't know how the soldiers of your army in the north can survive such a hot summer. He looked into the carriage, "Someone! Eat something cold! Relieve the heat of the summer! β
The two slave girls agreed in the carriage, and with the answer, two snow-skinned women appeared in front of Hong Chengchou. In contrast to the black slave girl, the two were as white as snow, with the difference that one had ebony hair and the other had white blonde hair.
"This son of a! In his own carriage, two white and one black women were waiting! Damn! When Lao Tzu goes back to Jiangbei, he must also get her two white and one black to warm Lao Tzu's feet! "Hong Chengchou's Goshha leader is about to burst into flames in his eyes.
Two white female slaves held a huge crystal glass in both hands, and white smoke was faintly emitting from it, and the smell of osmanthus wafted in bursts. But it's iced osmanthus sour plum soup! Osmanthus is not rare, sour plum soup is not uncommon, and the chilled osmanthus sour plum soup is also a good product to relieve the heat in the eyes of people of Hong Chengchou's status, but it is not a rare thing. However, it is rare that in Lin Kun's carriage, there can be iced osmanthus sour plum soup?!
You must know that in Hong Chengchou's understanding, the ice used in summer must be transported from the river in winter and stored in the ice cellar for a whole winter, a spring, after consuming a lot of manpower and material resources, you can enjoy the refreshing coolness in the middle of summer.
However, he didn't expect that in Lin Kun's carriage, two cups of chilled osmanthus sour plum soup were casually served. Looking at the small Xiaoice cube in the crystal glass that faintly collided with the wall of the cup, stirring up bursts of dark fragrance and water splash, Hong Chengqi couldn't help but take a breath. He once again had an understanding of Nanzhong's strength.
As everyone knows, the use of artificial methods to make ice has been studied by Li Shouhan as early as the Ha Jing period. Relying on a large amount of saltpeter resources that can be squandered wantonly, Nanzhong can produce a large amount of ice cubes anytime and anywhere. And this technology was given to Hong Chengchou for nothing, but I was afraid that Dolgon would not dare to use it. Because, how can precious saltpeter be wasted casually when it is used to make gunpowder?
A thousand-year-old fox, a senior embarrassment who has traveled thousands of miles, quietly passed two tricks as soon as he got out of the car.
In the past few days waiting for the will of Beijing City, Lin Kun was good at dancing in Nanjing City, and almost as soon as they met, he had a hot fight with Duoduo and became close friends. The reason is very simple. It's just four words to his liking. Duoduo liked spirits, and as soon as Lin Kun met, he gave him a hundred jars of good soju. "Sichuan's Jiannan Shaochun, Luzhou Daqu, and Xufu's Yaozichun Qujiu each have 20 jars, 20 jars of Qujiu in Erlang Town on the banks of the Chishui River, and 20 jars of Maotai Liquor in Maotai Town!" Students who are familiar with liquor should be able to see at a glance that these soju include Jiannanchun, Luzhou Daqu, Wuliangye, Gulin's Langjiu, and Moutai. In the peaceful years, making such wine is a big gift, not to mention the years when there are swords everywhere?
Wine is a color matchmaker. With the best spirits in the Duoduo cup, it is natural that there are few beautiful women to accompany the wine. And this is precisely the strength of Lin Kunlin's shopkeeper. He clapped his hands left and right, "Come on! Bring us the treasures we gave to the General and the Regent! β
said that it was a few treasures, but it was also a little untrue. A baby is a baby, but it's a living baby. It was Lin Kun who used his professional network to acquire all kinds of beauties. Sure enough, it was all kinds of colors. The skin is yellow, white, and black. The eyes also have black pupils, some are blue like autumn water, some are almost colorless, and some are green like gems. There are also different hair colors, such as black, millet, yellow, brown, golden, white, wheat, and so on. There are more than 100 people.
"In the next life's wish, it is to collect all kinds of beauties and beauties in this world, all the places from all over the world, to fulfill their hopes. The so-called beauties of the five continents, all of them accompany me to be happy, which is the joy of the five continents. Now, it is shared with the general and the regent! β
Lin Kun's gift is chic, and it directly points to the most undisciplined part of a man's heart. Just ask, that man with normal sexual orientation doesn't want to have more choices and combinations between his bed? Lin Kun's hand undoubtedly opened a door to a new world for Duoduo.
Just when Duoduo was a little dazzled, and he didn't know which of the things he left as his favorite things in the bed, which ones were given to the second brother in Beijing City, so that he could work these fertile fields, Lin Kun's other big killer came into play.
With the sound of hooves, Lin Kun's subordinates appeared in the courtyard with twenty fine horses.
"Beauty, famous horses, heroes, and courage. Great General please! "Lin Kun's twenty horses will naturally not arouse Duoduo's interest like the beauties of Fang Cai, you know, he has grown up in the horse bush since he was a child, and he has seen too many good horses. However, it was not Lin Kun's affection, so he had to order someone to lead the horse in front of him to look at them one by one. However, the closer look surprised Duoduo.
"These horses were given to the general and the regent by my owner's order. It's a great horse from heaven. Seeing that Duoduo's eyes were firmly attracted by the hair, skeleton, and appearance of these horses, Lin Kun told him just right where these tall skeletons and extraordinary horses came from.
"Aren't Liang Guogong's subordinates short of horses? How can there be such a divine horse? What's more, so many? With great difficulty, Dodor withdrew his gaze from the twenty horses, and looked back with narcissism.
The general didn't know this. Lack of horses, that was back then. Now that the lord of my family has expanded the land for thousands of miles, Tianzhu, Tianfang, Wusizang, Shizhou, Fusang, everywhere is more than thousands of miles, and what is it to raise hundreds of thousands of millions of horses? Even on Tamna Island, not far from Nanjing, there are tens of thousands of good horses grazing there. "Lin Kun's words, true and false, half-truths and half-truths, make it difficult for Duoduo and Hong Chengchou to distinguish.
The geographical environment of the Nanyue army led to a lack of suitable horses for the formation of cavalry. Whether it is Hong Chengchou, who has had dealings with Li Shouhan and has a better understanding of the situation in Nanzhong, or there are many minions from the Liaodong Army under his command, and at the same time, there are Jin merchants who do business in Nanzhong and Guangzhou, and the Dolgon brothers who act as spies, are all very clear in their hearts.
However, Lin Kun's performance today was a little unexpected.
"What the General and Mr. Hong know is the old days. It must be known that the yellow calendar in the Chongzhen period, how can it be seen today? Nowadays, my lord has horse farms in all the above-mentioned places, raising horses to cover the sky and wilderness, so why lack horses? Not only is there no shortage of horses, but various horse breeds are now being cross-bred to produce better and more suitable horse breeds. β
The Nanyue Army has horse farms in various places, and Duoduo also understands this from the mouth of the Dugu Hanjiang River, but after all, Dugu Hanjiang has not been to the fundamental place of the Nanyue Army, and Duoduo can only be half-convinced. However, when these words came out of Lin Kun's mouth today, the meaning was different.
However, Lin Kun's words are also nine points true and one point false. It is a sure fact that there are horse farms in Tamna Island, in the land of Yin Shang in Fuso, in Tianzhu, in Shizhou, etc. At the same time, the merchants of Europa and the nobles of the Ottoman Empire also continued to act as suppliers of high-quality horses for Nanzhong, in order to obtain preferential trade terms. Through these sites and sources, the horse breeding and breeding work carried out by the Nanyue Army in various places can be regarded as fruitful. These are all truths, and I am not afraid that Dolgon Hong Chengchou will confirm them through their own channels. However, the most important thing is the one point of leave.
If a large number of horses wanted to be transported from these places to the Central Plains and put into battle with the Qing army, then the difficulty of shipping by sea was enormous, and at present, the sailors and merchant fleets of the Southern Yue Army did not have this ability. It's a pity that due to the so-called limitations, neither Duoduo nor Hong Chengchou realized this. They only saw that the sailors of the Nanyue Army were able to transport a large number of grain, rice, ordnance and materials to Liaodong and Beijing, but they did not know that it was easy to transport ten stones and one hundred stones of rice, but it was difficult to transport one horse.
Seeing that the enemy was no longer bothered by the affairs of the military horses, Duoduo couldn't help but feel a little stunned. In order to show his boldness, but also to express his gratitude to Lin Kun for the various gifts he gave, he ordered people to choose 200 horses in the army.
"Mr. Lin, since you said that your lord is selecting and breeding good horses, then the king will put the icing on the cake and send him 200 good horses so that he can breed them well. When he breeds a good horse, he will give the king a few more! β
Today is the time for Hong Chengchou and Lin Kun to negotiate the appeasement between the Nanyue army and the Qing army.
In line with the principle of easy first and then difficult, the two negotiators began negotiations.
"Lord Hong, he is a businessman, so he is naturally in business. Since the regent has a word to restore the normal trade of the two miles, then, on your one-third of an acre of land, the silver dollar we minted and issued, the Nanzhong Tongbao, is also the same legal currency. You don't have to be so jealous. β
It is difficult to recover and destroy all the copper coins issued by the previous dynasties in the past dynasties, and there are many circulating ones in the market. Even the Liao State and the Western Xia, except for minting some currency to demonstrate their legitimate political status, most of the copper coins in circulation in the market were minted by the Northern Song Dynasty. Today, the same is true in areas controlled by the Qing court. Although there are documents prohibiting the use of silver dollars and tongbao issued by Nanzhong, but there are so many people in Shengdou? And the businessmen have other calculations, "Lao Tzu uses the copper coins from the south, which are in good condition and good condition, and they are willing to accept them, so it is naturally a good thing." As for the silver dollar, it is even more useful! Why don't you use something useful? "In addition to these two points, the use of Tongbao silver dollars issued by Nanzhong can get the greatest benefits in the market. The reason is very simple, that is, these two currencies are based on sufficient materials.
This point is clear even to the princes of Horqin who are far away in Liaodong, and the big leaders of the Sauron tribe in the Outer Xing'an Mountains and Heilongjiang!
"It's good! This point is beneficial and harmless to the merchants and people under the rule of both of you and me, and I love the people in the Qing Dynasty, so I naturally have to agree! "Instead of minting coins in large quantities to meet market demand, the foundry bureaus and other workshops in the Jingshi that are under the control of Chen Banda can devote more manpower and material resources to the manufacture of artillery, firearms, knives and guns. Hong Chengchou sees this very clearly.
However, he didn't realize how much harm would be done once the so-called open trade and the Tongbao and silver dollars issued by the Nanyue Army were allowed to circulate freely on the territory of the Qing Army. Perhaps, in the future, the Qing army will pay the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Han army who surrendered to Shun, and those soldiers will ask for silver dollars and Nanzhong Tongbao. Otherwise, we will not recognize the broken silver and copper coins issued by the imperial court. In order to find these salaries, how would the Qing army carry out trade activities with the Nanyue army? What to sell to Nanzhong merchants? Or through the channels of the Jin merchants, the gold and silver looted and looted everywhere were exchanged for silver dollars and tongbao?
Actually, Hong Chengchou can't be blamed for this. Not to mention that he was a scholar and bureaucrat living in the 17th century, even if he lived in the 20th century as an economic expert and a leader in charge of the national economy, he was bent on linking his own currency to green paper. Desperately organize exports, sell all kinds of good things in their homes to the bald eagles at the price of cabbage, renewable and non-renewable, and all kinds of strategic resources at the price of cabbage, exchange them for handfuls of green paper, and then go to the bald eagle's house to buy all kinds of luxury goods. Then, you want to buy something, and people don't sell it to you with all kinds of obstacles. The large amount of green paper in your hand that has been exchanged for people's blood, sweat and resources is constantly shrinking with the changes in people's exchange rates and interests. As a result, another master proposed to buy a large number of white debts of the Bald Eagle family, so that the Bald Eagles have money to spend and buy our products, and we can also get interest income. Sure enough, it's a wishful thinking that plays well! I don't know if he's stupid, or if he thinks Bald Eagle is just as stupid as he is?
Sure enough, immediately after Hong Chengchou raised the issue of resuming trade between the two sides.
"We can sell horses, cattle and sheep to your army. In exchange, we will not send men and horses to attack your army's defense areas in Shandong and other places. But the wheat, cotton, or cloth that grows there must be sold to us! β
After saying this, Hong Chengchou twisted his beard and stared at Lin Kun's face with a pair of eyes.
This is clearly to take the Shandong soldiers and horses of Lu Mahong, Wu Xing and others as hostages, and force them to provide the Qing army with strategic materials such as cotton, wheat, and cloth.
Lin Kun also showed no weakness, and his two eyes met him like sharp swords.
"Old thing! Don't use this trick to scare me! Lao Tzu encountered the situation at sea, all kinds of characters are much more ruthless than you! β
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