What is the situation in the country?

In the past, they may not feel that they are in China, but when they are in a "wild" foreign land, although this place is not as desolate as imagined, the imaginary miasma does not prevent them from thinking about China, which often turns into another longing for things in the Celestial Empire.

People here like items from the country, in their opinion, only from the country can be worthy of their identity, in order to make their homesickness be alleviated, in addition to the books, cloth and other daily necessities from the Central Plains, they are also eager to understand the changes in the country, after all, this is too far away from China, any news here, has become the old news a month ago, now, the arrival of friends made Li Shidi immediately a little impatient to ask, and the discipline sitting on the side also looked at Wang Zhiyang.

"Now the situation in the country, well, how to say? As far as the overall situation is concerned, at present, the Qing Lu can be said to be at a dead end, when I came, the Qing Lu either fled from the north to the pass, or fled west into Shaanxi, in short, the current domestic situation, has been very different in the past. ”

Even as an officer, Wang Zhiyang didn't know much about the news, after all, his rank limited his sources.

"Anyway, now Daming Zhongxing is just around the corner."

"Just around the corner?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Li Shidi said in a slightly exclamatory tone.

"I think things are not as simple as imagined, don't forget what the situation is in the Ming Dynasty now, there are many feudal domains, and the imperial court has no soldiers and no power, Zhongxing doesn't know, but the situation in this world may not be as we imagined."

Maybe as a governor of a place, sometimes he will see a little farther and think a little more. That's why he thinks like this.

"Ah, that's it."

took a sip of tea casually, as if Wang Zhiyang didn't have any reaction to all this, he just said casually.

"It's not a big deal, there are virtuous people in the world, and today is a better background, you say that if the king is also from the clan, is it better for the king to be the king, or is it better to be the king today?"

Wang Zhiyang's rhetorical question made Li Shidi's whole body tremble, and the discipline sitting on the side looked at the naval lieutenant in surprise, as if he had seen a ghost.

"Don't act like you've seen a ghost, it's just me talking nonsense here."

After giving his friend a blank look, Wang Zhiyang drank it all in the cup.

"I don't know if the king is a relative vassal or not, but do you know that now there are some old ministers who have seen the first emperor and say that the king looks quite like the first emperor."

This seemingly unintentional word made Li Shidi's eyes widen suddenly, he looked at Wang Zhiyang in shock, and his lips trembled slightly.

"Really?"

The king looks quite like the first emperor!

This sentence seems simple, but in fact, there is another possibility, that is, the king is very likely to be a clan, if this is the case, then ...... But it couldn't be better!

"I'm afraid only God knows!"

Wang Zhiyang smiled helplessly, there are too many rumors of all kinds now, no one knows, what is behind these rumors, maybe there is someone who wants to push it, maybe it is really there, who knows?

So he changed the subject and asked.

"My Lord Governor, when I was here, I heard about something and I wanted to ask you a question."

Looking at Li Shidi, Wang Zhiyang's tone seemed to be joking, but his expression seemed a little serious.

"When passing through Zhancheng, I heard that Zheng Zhilong, the Marquis of Nan'an, ordered people to buy rice from Zhancheng and Siam, and intended to buy millions of stones of rice, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

"Indeed!"

Li Shidi nodded and said.

"They not only buy rice in these two places, but also buy rice in Nantianmen, but they all buy rice from Java through the trading houses in Nantianmen, Java is also rich in rice, and each stone is only about two yuan, after the trading house buys rice from Java, it is shipped to Nantianmen and then sold for only four yuan per stone, which is on par with Siamese rice, Jiangnan should not be short of grain, right?"

Looking at Wang Zhiyang, Li Shidi's tone was a little puzzled, since Zheng Zhilong's comeback, the Zheng family's fleet has frequently appeared in the South Seas. Although he didn't think that the Zheng family would meddle in Nanyang now, there were some things that had to be guarded against, after all, sometimes, people would always do something unexpected.

It is precisely because of this that he is quite worried about it, which is also the reason why he hopes to strengthen the sea power of Nantianmen, but he didn't expect his old classmate to be sent here, which is also an unintentional gain.

"Lack of food? Jiangnan Cao grain is millions of stones a year, and there is no need to pay Cao grain now, if the Zheng family is short of grain, I am afraid that there is no place in the world where there is no shortage of grain. ”

It is impossible for Jiangnan to have a shortage of food, this is the least common sense, for Wang Zhiyang, who is already from Jiangnan, how could he not know this common sense, Wang Zhiyang's brows frowned slightly, and then said in a solemn tone,

"If it's not Huaifan, then ...... I don't know if other people are short of food, but Huai Fan must be short of food now, not to mention that hundreds of thousands of people in the capital need to be covered with grain, that is, his hundreds of thousands of troops are in the north, and they must also need food, and the north has always had insufficient food for the people to eat, since Yongle moved north to the present, the needs of the north have relied on the grain in the south of the Yangtze River, and now the grain is cut off, if he wants to ......"

Suddenly, Wang Zhiyang's eyebrows suddenly raised, and he said excitedly.

"They want to transport grain to the capital by sea! If my expectations are not bad, the Zheng family must have colluded with Li Huai, and this grain is Zheng Zhilong's stepping stone! ”

For Fan Sanba, who is thousands of miles away, if he hears Wang Zhiyang's words, he will definitely praise him, now he is no longer a businessman, but as a staff member of Nan'an Hou, give him advice, and the first idea he gave Zheng Zhilong was to contact Chu Fan.

"Jieyuan, sure enough, as you expected, that Li Ziyuan is really stumped by the grain now, not only is the grain in the capital not enough, but now even the granary in Luoyang has been taken away by Aobai, and now they are sending the grain to Shaanxi in a truckload, and Li Ziyuan's grain road will be cut off all of a sudden!"

Zheng Zhilong seemed quite happy, after he was pardoned by the imperial court, he naturally returned to Fujian, and then he has been stationed in Fuzhou, the reason why this is so is because his "good grandson" does not agree with him to go to Nanjing, after all, everyone knows that he Zheng Zhilong is only the Marquis of Nan'an, but the influence of the Zheng family is even far greater than Zheng Jing.

No, even if he is in Fuzhou, Zheng Zhilong is not idle, on the one hand, he is contacting the old department of the Zheng family's army, and on the other hand, he is still there to plan for the interests of the Zheng family, just like now he is trying to establish a deeper connection with Li Ziyuan.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong was only skeptical of Fan Sanba's suggestion to use grain as bait, although he knew the importance of grain to the capital when he was in the capital, but he didn't think that this matter could promote cooperation between the two. But the news from the north made his whole person smile.

"The granary of Luoyang was taken by the Qing army?"

Fan Sanba asked in surprise, and said in surprise.

"Master Hou, if that's the case, it's time to send our grain over."

Fan Sanba said without hesitation.

"Just with the grain in the capital, he Li Ziyuan can't last a few days, he must be worried about this matter at the moment, if we send the food over, we will definitely be able to solve his worries, and when the time comes, the door of this Chu domain will naturally be opened."

Knock on the door of the Chu Domain!

In fact, for the Min Domain, naturally there is no need to "knock on the door", but Zheng Zhilong does not represent the Min Domain, in fact, he only represents himself, what Nan'an Hou is just a name, and even Fan Sanba, who is his confidant, knows that for Nan Anhou, even the grandson in Nanjing is just an unfilial son, the same as his father.

As for why he hoped to contact Chu Fan, Zheng Zhilong naturally had his plans and ideas, and for Fan Sanba, what he needed was to help Zheng Zhilong realize his plans, and of course, for the future, Fan Sanba also had his plans.

After experiencing the upheaval, he didn't want to be like his father, just to be a businessman, even if he was a royal businessman, a businessman would always be fat in the eyes of officials. His heart has long been confused by Zheng Zhilong's sentence "can be a minister", deep in Fan Sanba's heart, he hopes that one day, the Fan family can be like the Zheng family, the noble and powerful ministers of the imperial court, not just a mermaid merchant.

It is this kind of thinking that will drive Fan Sanba to bet everything on Zheng Zhilong, just like Lu Buwei invested in Yiren back then, but this "Yiren" is not the other "Yiren", Zheng Zhilong, who was born in One Piece, is not the "Yiren" who is hostage, he has greater ambitions and desires, and will never be at the mercy of others.

Not to mention Fan Sanba, even when Zheng Chenggong was alive, Zheng Zhilong never thought that he would listen to his arrangement, let alone others. And this is precisely Fan Sanba's choice to choose him.

Zheng Zhilong may not be a stranger in the history books, and he Fan Sanba is also not Lu Buwei, they all have their own ambitions and desires, but they just use each other to achieve them, what Fan Sanba wants is Zheng Zhilong's prestige in Fujian Zheng, and what Zheng Zhilong wants is the wealth of the eight families headed by the Fan family, and uses these wealth to achieve his goals.

"What the third province said is very true, but in your opinion, who is the right person to handle this matter?"

Zheng Zhilong stared at Fan Sanba and asked rhetorically.