"Have you negotiated the deal over there in Liaodong?"

In Keelung County, when Li Tianyang was inspecting the Qixintang industry, when he was alone with Dong Haoran, he suddenly remembered something and asked Dong Haoran.

"Luodian and they reported that the general content has been negotiated, and only some details still need to be negotiated, and the final contract should be signed within a week."

Dong Haoran nodded and gave an affirmative answer.

"Well, that's good, remember to communicate more with the proprietors of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, so that they can increase their investment in Liaodong, and the future output return will not be bad!"

Li Tianyang smiled with satisfaction, and at the same time did not forget to tell Dong Haoran a few words.

"Yes!"

Dong Haoran responded repeatedly, but he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and instead began to ask Li Tianyang: "Master of the door, why don't we invest in the development of so many undeveloped lands in Luzon and Dayuan Island that we have in our hands, but go to the place in Liaodong that has been frozen for half a year to engage in development?" ”

"Although I also know that this is conducive to our control of Liaodong, to be honest, such a big move will put a lot of pressure on us and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce!"

"Hehehe!"

Li Tianyang smiled meaningfully on his face: "I'm afraid you have long held these words in your heart!" ”

"Indeed, if we just want to buy the hearts and minds of Yehebu, we can just teach them the cultivation techniques of high-yield crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes."

"In other words, simply cleaning up the Yehe tribe once and for all, it is not a difficult thing for my Hongmen to do at all!"

"However, the reason why my Hongmen captured Liaodong and continued to spend a lot of money to build many factories in Liaodong is not because there are so many rich mineral deposits under Liaodong?"

"With the strength of my Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, if we want to develop Liaodong, the progress is still slow, and we still have a larger territory to develop in the future, so from now on, we must be more open-minded and broad-minded."

"As the Yehebu Jurchens are natives of Liaodong, as long as we win them over, we can use them as a future constraint and suppress the remnants of the Qing Dynasty who fled north; Second, wouldn't it be better for us to change and educate the Jurchen barbarians and turn them into members of our Hongmen and use them for my use? ”

Li Tianyang talked eloquently, his vision and mind were indeed as he said, and gradually became less narrow-minded, even if it was a Jurchen, now in his opinion, it was a living force that could be absorbed.

"But the master of the door, if you want the Jurchens to return to us sincerely, you can't do it in a dozen or twenty years. Moreover, the Jurchens, Mongolians and other steppe peoples are naturally unruly and unruly, and they do not obey discipline, no matter how much we invest, we may not be able to exchange sincerity for sincerity and obtain their pleasing and convincing allegiance! ”

Dong Haoran was still a little dissatisfied with Li Tianyang's words, after all, he was a person who had been Li Tianyang's secretary, and he said what he thought of in his heart, anyway, there were no outsiders around them at this time.

"You're right, it will take at least a few decades for our current investment to pay off."

Li Tianyang nodded in agreement with Dong Haoran's opinion, but he disagreed with his opinion: "But if we don't do it now, sooner or later we will have to do this thing!" ”

"Instead of leaving these problems to future generations to solve, why don't we take the first step and lay a good foundation for future generations?"

To tell the truth, Li Tianyang has his own understanding of the scourge of ethnic minorities outside the Guan.

The invasion of the nomadic peoples of the ancient north against the Chinese farming peoples has never been cut off, but it will increase or decrease according to the overall strength of the previous dynasties.

It is as strong as the Han and Tang dynasties, and there are still nomads knocking on the customs and disturbing the Chinese border passes? The Great Wall built by the Chinese countries with great effort is still difficult to stop the invasion of nomads.

Therefore, at this time, Li Tianyang stayed in the Yehe Jurchen First Division, in addition to wanting to use them to contain the Great Qing Ai Xinjueluo First Division who fled north, but also wanted to treat them as guinea pigs, so as to test a solution that he had been thinking about for many years.

After all, with the growth of ambition and strength, Li Tianyang's confidence in setting foot in the Central Plains has become more and more firm, and then he has to consider the various problems he will face after setting foot in the Central Plains.

In Li Tianyang's view, this is a precautionary matter, who made the Qing people who should have dominated the world in history have now become a lost dog, and even their own Longxing land has been occupied by Hongmen.

As for the Central Plains forces such as Daming, Dashun, and Daxi, at least from the perspective of intelligence collection by the outer guards of Houhongmen, except for the larger population base and larger army, none of the rest is as good as Hongmen.

"To put it bluntly, the northern nomads have been constantly invading our Han family, and one of the biggest reasons is that they can't communicate with our Han people."

"The materials that the nomads urgently lack, such as tea, salt and iron, are rich in my Han family's territory; And most of the things they can take are dispensable for my Han family, even if there is no nomadic providence, they can be self-sufficient in the land of China. ”

"In the long run, unless there are products that have a great relationship with people's livelihood strategies, such as cattle and war horses, my Chinese merchants are very rarely able to deal with nomads."

"There are not enough channels to obtain the daily needs of salt and iron, and the nomadic people with strong personalities naturally have to use force to obtain these urgently needed materials; This in turn forced the Chinese dynasties to step up the consolidation of the border and prohibit exchanges with the nomads of the steppe. ”

"In the end, a vicious circle was formed, the Chinese dynasty was strong, and the steppe nomads rarely dared to offend; And when the Chinese Dynasty declined, then the steppe nomads would take the opportunity to enter, not seeking to completely occupy the territory of China, but would also plunder and destroy it, and return with a full load. ”

"Nowadays, our commercial negotiations with the Liaodong Jurchens are more about developing the specialties in the hands of the nomads, so that their specialties can attract Chinese merchants to trade."

"And when trade becomes a norm and emerges, China's salt, iron, and grain will naturally be brought to the nomads by the merchants."

"As long as our Hongmen guarantees the policy of opening up trade and does not prohibit the free buying and selling of grain, tea and other materials, how can the nomads who are accustomed to exchanging their specialties for food, tea and salt materials in the future risk dying in battle to plunder and invade our Huaxia land?"

In front of Dong Haoran, Li Tianyang slowly said the blueprint he had drawn in his heart, anyway, in the next layout of Liaodong, the role played by Dong Haoran's Qixintang will gradually replace the role of the Hongtang Military Department, these things, sooner or later Li Tianyang will tell Dong Haoran.

(End of chapter)