Zuo Maodi took a sip of tea, then put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Before talking about this, Zuo Mou asked first, your Japan has always been a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, but now it has been a long time since I paid tribute, and our Emperor His Majesty is a little unhappy!" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned for a moment, and then reacted and said directly: "It's not that our small country was also in civil strife before, and the emperor was busy with domestic affairs and forgot about it for a while, and I will tell the emperor about this back, this tribute will be restored this year, and you can bring the tribute and documents when you go back this time!" ”

"Then that's easy to say!" Zuo Maodi nodded with satisfaction, and then Zuo Maodi nodded with a smile: "Of course, our Ming Dynasty as a state of etiquette is naturally a courtesy, Zuo received a document from the court to Zuo and learned that some of your country's rogues were captured by the court some time ago, although they are rogues, but all of them are elite, and they should not be worse than the soldiers in the general's mansion, if the general is interested." Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info。。。。。 ”

Before Zuo Maodi finished speaking, Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes lit up, and then he said with a smile: "Thank you to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Zuo Mao was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Zuo has not finished speaking, how can the general thank our Emperor His Majesty?" ”

"Isn't your majesty the emperor going to reward us with these rogues?" Tokugawa Ieyasu said cheekily.

"General! I'm sorry to tell you that these rogues have now been rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor to the meritorious servants below, and then these meritorious men have sold them to a trading firm! Now this trading house is preparing to auction these rogues! "Zuo Maodi's half-truths and half-truths are authentic.

"What?! Auction?! Tokugawa Ieyasu said with some surprise.

"That's right! Auction! The highest price wins! Nowadays, our magnates in the Ming Dynasty like to buy a few and go back to be the housekeepers! Also said! It's very good, if it weren't for the strict control of the Chamber of Commerce, it is estimated that it would have been robbed up by now! Zuo Maodi said nonsense.

"What does Zuo-sama mean?" Tokugawa Ieyasu asked.

"If the general wants these people, he can help play them to the imperial court, and let the imperial court help the general buy them back for the general! But the general has to pay for this silver! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

"Since it was given to us? Why do you need silver?! "Where would Tokugawa Ieyasu be so readily agreed.

"Our court is buying it back for the general! This naturally requires money! And those people are powerful, will this ask for a cheap price? Nowadays, our court needs to spend silver everywhere, and there are more than 10,000 of those rogues, which is a lot of money! Even if you don't want the general to come out by himself and let our court reward you all, then I don't know when it will take, and Zuo is not sure if the court will be willing to help the general! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

"Just now, it was said that the Celestial Empire is a state of etiquette! Why don't you necessarily like it?" Tokugawa Ieyasu pouted.

"This depends on the sincerity of the general! Besides, our Emperor His Majesty is already furious, and the courtiers are also furious, and it is a great honor not to blame you! The general thinks it's still possible to give you these rewards? Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't bother to continue to talk about it, and said directly: "We want all these people, you see how much money you need for the phone!" ”

Zuo Maodi smiled and raised three fingers, Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at it, and said with a wave of his hand: "300,000?!" No problem! I'll give it to you in a moment! ”

Zuo Maodi shook his head and said with a smile: "The general is really joking!" The minimum is three million taels! ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu almost pulled out his sword to cut Zuo Maodi, but in the end he endured and said, "We don't have so much silver in our treasury!" ”

"If not, Zuo has a way!" Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

"Please advise!" Tokugawa Ieyasu said quietly.

"How about you let us mine the Iwami Silver Mountain for three years?" Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

Tokugawa Ieyasu almost squirted out of his old school, and directly thought of it and said, "I refuse!" That's impossible! It turned out that this was the real purpose of Zuo Maodi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at this smiling scholar and really wanted to kill him with a knife.

Zuo Maodi did not give up because of Tokugawa Ieyasu's refusal, and then said: "The general can think about it!" Let us come to the Ming to mine for three years, we can give you more copper coins, and even the silver and gold coins we use now in the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time will increase the sumac, sulfur, silk, tea and other items, cancel the restrictions, reduce the tariffs on you, and so on! ”

"This is just your talk! How can I believe you! Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help but be a little moved.

"His Majesty the Emperor has given Zuo the right to arbitrarily make decisions on the spot, and these are all within the scope of his authority!" Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

"Even that's not enough to redeem us for three years of mining rights!" Tokugawa Ieyasu objected.

"How about we still provide you with our Ming ordnance?" Zuo Maodi seduced.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Just those warships?" And artillery ?! ”

"At present, our own army is not much, but it is not without a chance? It depends on the sincerity of the general! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

Tokugawa Ieyasu secretly began to calculate, if he could get those things, his strength would not increase by then, as long as he had more than he didn't have the strength to argue with the Ming Dynasty, so that in exchange for three years of mining rights to Ming Guo did not seem to be a loss, and Zuo Maodi did not disturb Tokugawa Ieyasu but was leisurely drinking tea on the side, at this time Huang Degong beside him suddenly approached Zuo Maodi, and then handed a note to Zuo Maodi, Zuo Maodi took a look, and then frowned, But he quickly regained his composure and nodded to indicate that he knew, and then Huang Degong returned to his position, and on the other side, Tokugawa Ieyasu seemed to have thought it through, only to see Tokugawa Ieyasu say: "It's okay to give you the right to mine for three years, but the mined silver must be fifty-five cents, after all, this is our main silver mine, and there must be our people on the mine!" ”

Zuo Mao waved his hand for the first time and said, "No!" Either in order to show our great power demeanor, we take a step back! Ninety percent of us, one percent of you! ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu almost spurted out another mouthful of old blood when he heard this, and even Huang Degong, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but begin to admire Zuo Maodi, "He is worthy of being a scholar!" It's just different! Ha ha! Huang Degong thought happily in his heart.

"No! That's no different from nothing! We take 30%, we can't be less! "Tokugawa Ieyasu has made it clear that he doesn't want to retreat.

"General! You see, otherwise! I heard that there has been a disturbance on the Ezo Road to the north of you recently, how about we go and put it down for you? This north side will be handed over to us to be responsible, and we will pay for this war ourselves, how?! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned, there are often rebellions in this Ezo Road, he really doesn't have much energy to pay attention to that side, anyway, it's all a small fight, and he doesn't care too much, and now Akito is so kind to help?! Help and help without receiving money?

"Don't you need us to pay the money?" Tokugawa Ieyasu did not confirm the way.

"I just said it! We own eighty percent of that silver mine, and we divide two percent of you! We will put down the rebellion for you, and we will be responsible for all the north! Zuo Maodi said chicly.

"No! It doesn't cost much money at all! "Tokugawa Ieyasu is not stupid.

"General! This incessant chaos adds up to a lot of silver! And it seems that your country is not too stable now, and if you need it, Zuo can ask our Emperor Majesty to send troops to support you! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

"Then I'll add a few more conditions!" Tokugawa Ieyasumichi.

"General, please!" Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

"First, help me find a man named Tokugawa Tadanaga, I think you can find it; Second, from today onwards, our trade with the Celestial Empire cannot be restricted, and at the same time, the preferential policies just mentioned must be implemented; Third, we hope to send some students to study in the Celestial Empire; Fourth, I hope that the Celestial Empire can give us the northern part of your Little Liuqiu! Tokugawa Ieyasu said four conditions at once!

Zuo Maodi smiled a little bitterly after hearing this: "The first three are all okay, but this last one is impossible!" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu also spread his hands and said: "Then what I said above is invalid, and when the time comes, we will find a way to get the silver and redeem people directly!" ”

Zuo Maodi said unhurriedly: "General, don't worry! Or else! Now that North Korea is almost terra nullius, how about we help you build this place? ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the map handed over by the Ming soldiers on the table, and said, "Isn't there someone here now?" Tokugawa Ieyasu wanted to say that there were no people from the Jin Kingdom here, but he thought of the hostile relationship between Ming and Jin, so he changed his words in time.

"There's a Tartar here! But now they don't have much energy to manage this side, as long as you get there, implement some benevolent government, and lead the local people to fight against the Tartars, showing the same hatred of the enemy, saying that they are here to rescue them, it is not too difficult to control it! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

After hearing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at Zuo Maodi, and couldn't help but shoot a fine light in his eyes and said, "Are you willing to help?" ”

"This is Ezo Road, as long as we have a firm foothold here, the sailors will start from here, and then send a sailor from Phi Dao, as for the army on land, it will be mainly you, and we can provide some other assistance such as ordnance! Of course, ordnance is for sale! Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

Tokugawa Ieyasu thought about it, it would be good to have the assistance of this sailor, his own sailor is now in great loss, and he has to defend in the country, it is more convenient to have the Ming army sailor, and the Ming army's sailor is stronger, and then nodded and said: "How do you know that the Tartar doesn't have much energy to pay attention to this side now!" ”