Since Li Dingguo came to Yunnan Mansion to summon all the toasts, the atmosphere in Yunnan Mansion has become strange. Within the city walls, the toasts were in fact under house arrest, and Li Dingguo gave them good food, drink, and hospitality, but refused to let them leave here before they negotiated a result--- for this "meeting", Li Dingguo made a special room for a large courtyard, and invited the best cook in the whole province to cook. However, the toasts were able to communicate with their men, and the guards were only searched and not allowed to bring weapons in; On the road leading to various places in Fucheng, there were also messengers in their clumsy disguises heading to their respective territories, and Li Dingguo didn't see them, but just listened to them to report back. On the first day and the second day, Li Dingguo personally came to the venue to meet with these local officials who had contributed a lot, and he drew the bottom line with full of energy, and talked with them a few times, and then he never saw anyone again, and on the third day, the person who held the meeting with them was replaced by Gao Wengui of the Military Administration Department, Gao Wengui was more patient, and these young officials and officials had worn out their mouths for several days in a row, but they just wanted to "throw it away when they ran out", "Say all the good things, and do the bad things." ”

On the sixth day, when the toasts came to the hall as usual, a temporary representative of the military department wore a three-rank official uniform instead of Gao Wengui's chairman: "The lord asked me to confess to everyone, he is really busy with official business, and he can't discuss this matter with you." ”

"But don't worry, what you talk to me is equivalent to talking to King Jin. Your Majesty can't help it, if it weren't for that, Dongyu would occupy most of the fifteen provinces, and he was afraid of a comeback... The country is in danger. "Actually, the temporary representative's third-grade official uniform is still worn by a six-grade director next to Li Dingguo, if according to the real official character, no one at this table is older than him, then there is no way to talk about it.

When Gao Wengui arrived, he relieved himself with a black face and said that "you can not return to the stream for the time being, but you must set up more liuguan for a while, and you are not allowed to obstruct or conceal your household registration for any reason", and the compensation measures allow the Tusi to obtain knighthoods and annuities after completing the return, or transfer a larger territory in southern Myanmar than promised before.

But when it came to this pale-skinned "representative of the military department", he refused to give in to the future. In the past few days, there have been sounds of surprise in the courtyard from time to time, and when everyone communicates with each other, their expressions are much more solemn than before, and there is no longer the idea of "I just don't bird you, and I rebel like you killed my family if I don't accept you".

"How rich is this court? He even sent a caravan to our ravine to sell salt, how much money can be made at such a low price? Unbeknownst to these people, neither the salt drying method (boiling salt was used in many places during the Ming Dynasty) nor the cost of the salt mine itself was not very high, and they could barely maintain a balance in access--- and by the way, they drew a map of the main roads of each Tusi. The war was fought around this line of communication and settlements, since Li Dingguo mastered the line of communication, then the mountains that his subordinates could climb, and the officers and soldiers with a large number of mountain people could also climb them, and the disadvantages of Yunnan rain and affecting the firing of bird guns were replaced by flintlock guns... Moreover, as his subordinates gradually became addicted to alcohol (in fact, the toasts themselves also became addicted), the control over them also weakened.

Perhaps, as those Han people said, the saints are born to know, but in a year or two, the situation in the whole of Yunnan and even Myanmar has changed, from the mountains and rivers to the land of two provinces...... And what about yourself?

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The toasts in the golden wire cage were whining and wailing, but in the eyes of ordinary people outside the cage, the practices of Li Dingguo and others were too dangerous. Needless to say, the Tusi still have tens of thousands of troops, and they are stationed in the six prefectures of the Han District (Yunnan, Qujing, Chengjiang, Dali, Yongchang, Lin'an) everywhere, once these Tusi leaders come up with any ideas, then Yunnan will be full of beacons, maybe the Manchus can recapture Yunnan again, without these Tusi barriers (and even to provide assistance to the Qing army) the Qing army will be able to go downstream, posing a great threat to Ava!

There are many ordinary people who "understand" these, but they were all blocked back by Li Dingguo, and in the end, Li Dingguo simply closed the door and thanked the guests.

In the streets and alleys, and even in the eyes of many officials and wealthy businessmen, Li Dingguo is "old and confused" and "anxious", and only a few people know that Li Dingguo has made a big chess party and "is playing a big game of chess".

Among these ordinary people, Anonymous is also one of them. After being politely blocked back by Li Dingguo's personal entourage, Anonymous grabbed almost every horse team that came from the north and asked anxiously: "Have those barbarian soldiers moved on the road, and what have you seen on the railroad track?" ……”

"Boss, this... It's no different from the last time I came. The handlebar style of the leader thought about it and said.

I sent away a batch and a batch came in, and the answer was the same, since there was no problem for the time being. Anonymous decided to rest assured for the time being: Anyway, inside and outside the city, there are still two battalions of new troops here, which one dares to come to the moth to put out the fire?

"In the past few days, there has been more new wine sold."

Anonymous nodded. "How much more?"

"It's about twice as much as a few days ago, I heard that when the king of Jin entered the city, he gave a reward to the soldiers, whether it was a new army or a native soldier, and they all poured in to buy wine; The guys who take the goods seem to be a little overwhelmed. ”

It was only then that Anonymous remembered the pit he had dug for the merchants in the city, which was still in Schrödinger's state: "You go to the counter of the central bank and ask, has any of the guys come to ask for a loan recently?" ”

The idea of the anonymous is to take advantage of the time when the shares are divided on that day, when there is always a mismatch between the strength and the amount of goods, and when anyone can't eat it first, they will either be forced to buy and sell the shares to disintegrate in various ways, and finally digest it, or force several of them to be forced to violate the rules of the guild, and with their own backing, the guild will collapse easily. The trade routes that the guild can control are also very limited, and the army is a card, do you still want to do business? As long as you skillfully resolve these heads and brains in Yunnan Mansion, you can maximize the use of the business network here.

After a while, the guy came back and reported: "The guys from three families are here, and the amount they asked is about 1,000 taels." ”

I dialed the abacus beads in my heart, and confirmed that this number matched the goods eaten in the past few days, and it was about to be the time to settle the bill---- the checkout time set by the anonymous was once every two months, which was faster than most merchants at this time, out of recognition and fear of the status of the imperial merchants, everyone nodded at the time, and there was absolutely no reason to regret it at this time.

(End of chapter)