"Then you have to make the Emperor pay the taxes!"

Li Dingguo said.

"As I said, you can't talk about all the issues related to Huangzhuang!"

Yang Qing said.

"Xingong, then you have to give us some benefits, right? If we don't care, it is impossible for your treasury bonds to be sold in Sichuan, in fact, the Sichuan gentry have a lot of criticism of you, and they will not support anything you want to do. So now we are talking about cooperation, you promise us some conditions, we help you persuade them to buy, but you don't even leave a little room to talk, so how do we talk about it? ”

Li Dingguo said dissatisfied.

"You can make requests that have nothing to do with the Imperial Village."

Yang Qing said as he drank tea.

"Then the Fuzhou garrison withdrew to Guiyang?"

Li Dingguo said.

"No way!"

Yang Qing replied very dryly.

"If the Fuzhou garrison retreats to Guiyang, what will you do if you attack Huangzhuang one day? What's more, my supplies depend on the Yangtze River transportation, if I withdraw to Guiyang, how many manpower will I have to maintain the military needs of that army? And if they evacuate Fuzhou, who will guarantee the safety of Huangzhuang's annual land rent to be transported outward? Don't tell me that there is no army there to suppress, you or those gentry in eastern Sichuan will not attack Huangzhuang, I can't trust you, but I can promise not to continue to increase troops, and in the future, I will maintain an army stationed west of the Three Gorges and will not increase again. ”

He continued.

The 13th Army must not be withdrawn, this army is the security guarantee of Huangzhuang, to say that Zhang Xianzhong and those gentry will not destroy Huangzhuang, this Yang Qing absolutely does not believe it.

They just don't dare.

Sun Kewang dared to make an unusual move in Chongqing, and then the Ming army in Fuzhou came to the door.

Anyway, the army also has a brigade and a military mortar battalion in Tushan, and almost all the artillery of the Ming army can shoot shells into Chongqing City, and Sun Kewang doesn't want to watch flowering shells fall from the sky in Chongqing.

And without his participation, just those militia groups organized by the gentry themselves, if they dare to do things, they can only be hanged and beaten by the militia, and these immigrants in eastern Sichuan are all northerners, and they have experienced more than ten years of bloody wind and dare to fight and kill. In addition, many local tenants who were familiar with the situation were added, and the latter's driving effect made the gentry expect that the Sichuan people hated each other basically did not exist. In fact, there have been many conflicts between the two sides over the years, basically the militia violently beat those gentry, and in some places even the militia overwhelmed the gentry and forced the latter to swallow their anger.

But the premise of this situation is that the Ming army is separated by a Yangtze River.

It was the artillery suppression of the Ming army.

It is a flowering bomb that can fly over the Yangtze River at any time.

"Xingong, then what else can we talk about?"

Li Dingguo said.

"I have something to talk to you about!"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"Anyway, Zhang Xianzhong is very idle now, he actually went to the river to open up the territory, I really don't dare to compliment his taste, even if there is no wild boar elk to hunt, at least a rabbit, he ran to shoot mice to make a ** force, it is too embarrassing!"

He then said with some disdain.

"What do you want to say?"

Li Dingguo said.

"I know that you are unwilling to see Li Zicheng snatch a full warehouse of gold and silver from the Western Regions, and I and King Gui engaged in maritime trade to earn gold and silver, but I am trapped in Sichuan and have nowhere to explore. This is also human nature, I can understand it, so I am going to find a place for you to exert your strength, and take you to earn that gold and silver together, which also saves you from always making trouble for me. ”

Yang Qing said.

He had to find a place for Zhang Xianzhong to release his energy.

These guys have nowhere to expand in Sichuan for a long time, and it is easy to cause trouble, after all, in a closed environment, internal contradictions will be magnified, which is also human nature, and the image point can be said to be full of food. For example, before the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan warlords fought for 20 years, to put it bluntly, there was a lack of channels to transfer contradictions. Now Zhang Xianzhong is like this, seeing that the outside is full of money, but because of environmental restrictions, he can only enjoy himself by the river. But Kawabe obviously couldn't release the energy of the old bandits under him, so they got involved in the matter of Yingjia, and now not only did not reap the benefits, but they had to pay two million, which obviously failed again.

Kawabe's expansion is not enough to stuff the gaps, and the outward efforts have failed, and I am afraid that the next thing is to make trouble inside.

This is highly likely.

Zhang Xianzhong's military leaders are not harmonious.

Therefore, Yang Qingde thought of giving them a channel to release their energy, simply put, to take them out to expand together, take them out to rob together, and use outward expansion to transfer their internal contradictions, so as to prevent these military leaders under Zhang Xianzhong from holding back for a long time and fighting first, and finally ruining the hard-won peace in Sichuan......

Although this is actually more beneficial to him.

But he still didn't want to take such a bargain at the cost of the war in Sichuan, and the Marquis of Zhongyong had been developing into a pacifist since he was promoted to the Duke of Xinguo.

At least this is the case for the internal separatist forces of the Ming Dynasty.

"What do you want to believe?"

Li Dingguo said with obvious surprise.

"It's very simple, find you a way to make a fortune.

At present, the provinces controlled by the imperial court are basically able to enjoy the benefits of overseas trade, even in Sichuan, as far as I know, there are also goods in Sichuan that go to sea through Songjiang Customs. There is only one province that has almost no connection with it, that is, Yunnan, Yunnan has no stable water transport channel, and only part of the Jinsha River can be navigated, and it is necessary to walk a long way to the east to reach the mouth of the river to receive water transport. However, if Yunnan goes south, it will be different, from Tengchong to the south, almost over the mountains can be connected to the Dajinsha River water transport, but the south is in the hands of the Burmese.

So I'm going to send troops south from Tengchong to explore Burma.

Of course, this is Wanzhuan's statement.

In fact, I am going to send troops south from Tengchong to beat the Burmese to the death, so that they know who is the boss of this place, and by the way, to restore the jurisdiction of Meng Yang and other Tusi, and to station some troops there to maintain control, in short, I will control this trade route with a war against Burma.

I hope you will be able to participate.

You don't need to contribute too many troops, 10,000 soldiers follow the battle, and 50,000 people are used to transport materials from Xuzhou to Kunming, of course, these people are paid by the imperial court, and their food and drink are purchased from Sichuan at the expense of the imperial court. In short, the transportation from Xuzhou to Kunming was handled by the Sichuan Minfu, the transportation from Kunming to Manmo was carried by the Yunnan Minfu, and the military quarters of the imperial court were transported to Xuzhou by water, so that the three sections of labor were transported. The front-line imperial court will send an army, you will send 10,000 people, with a total strength of more than 30,000 points, plus 10,000 boatmen who are used for water transportation on the Dajinsha River and people who accompany them for short-distance transportation. ”

Yang Qing said.

The Irrawaddy River or the current name of the Dajinsha River this water transport line must be opened, Tengchong south is close to the Ba Mo, and the eight Mo below the whole year navigation, and can pass the big boats, at least the canal boat level in the Ba Mo is not pressure at all, where the mountains are full of trees and it is also convenient for shipbuilding, Burmese teak and even top ship materials. At present, if the materials from Sichuan want to be transported to Yangon, they must go to sea along the Yangtze River to go around half of Asia, but after opening this transportation line, all that is needed is to pass through Yunnan and then go down the river in Ba Mo or the current name of Manmo, which requires less than one-fifth of the current distance.

And in itself this trade line exists.

This is the famous Southwest Silk Road, especially the land transportation in Yunnan, and it is an ancient road that has been walked for 2,000 years.

It's just that the chaotic situation in Myanmar, especially the secession of those toasts, has seriously affected its unimpeded flow, and what Yang Qing needs to do next is a show of force to deter these toasts with his strength. By the way, it is necessary to strike at Donghu, after all, at this time, Burma is considered to be Donghu, and establish the suzerainty status of the Ming Dynasty over Donghu by force, and forcibly establish concessions in Ava, Bagan, and other important cities along the route to ensure the smooth and stable flow of this trade route in the future. As for shipping to Europe, Yang Qing did not need to worry about this, because the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company had branches in Burma, and the Portuguese had even established a colony in Salian, opposite Rangoon, but it was recaptured by the Taungoo dynasty in 1613.

As long as this line was opened, the British and Dutch merchant ships would follow there, and although this line was certainly not as large as the trade from the southeast coast, it would allow the three southwestern provinces to obtain a more convenient trade route.

It is even possible to advance westward into India.

The end of the road is to take the famous Savage Mountain Hukang River Valley into Assam, and then from Assam to India.

"So what do we get?"

Li Dingguo said.

"Isn't it enough to rob money and women?"

Yang Qing was stunned and exclaimed.

"Xingong, can't you be more tactful?"

Li Dingguo said speechlessly.

"Or to be more specific, you must know that Myanmar is different from Yunnan, even if the Sichuan people enter Yunnan in a big way, they have to face diseases, not to mention Myanmar, which is more humid and hot, we don't care about wars, but no one can stand the disease. There has to be a sufficient return on the risk, and it's hard to make up for the loss with just some looting, so you have to give us something more definite and worth more. ”

He continued.

"Do you know how many gems Daming buys from Myanmar in a year?"

Yang Qing said.

Li Dingguo shook his head.

"Almost all the ruby sapphires in the Ming Dynasty come from a valley controlled by Mengmi Tusi, and amber and jadeite are produced in Mengyang Tusi, and only the official average annual purchase of more than 1,000 taels and more than 1,000 taels of gems during the Xuande period is not considered as private smuggling. If you're willing to participate in this operation, we can partner up with a company and completely monopolize the import of gems there. Now the value of one or two rubies in Nanjing has been speculated to tens of thousands of yuan, although jadeite is much cheaper, but as far as I know, the jadeite pit that Mengyang Tusi is mining is just a trivial point, and there are countless jadeite hidden in the ground waiting to be dug.

Let's go control there and let those natives be coolies, dig up gems and take them to Tengchong, raise workers in Tengchong to process them, take them to Nanjing and sell them to those rich people, and then we will make a fortune together. ”

Yang Qing said.