One of the trade representatives of the Ming Dynasty, Nguyen Dan, a Han Chinese born in Hue City of Annam, was accompanied by several personal soldiers to visit his relatives in Liu Guozheng. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He has been away from home for too long, and it is a true portrayal of things and people, and it took several twists and turns to find a wife who had remarried.

It was an ordinary peasant house, the man was honestly squatting on the ground and silent, this Hou Li Dynasty Jing people could not speak Chinese, and when he saw the official master coming to find his wife, his heart was like a knife, and he looked at his woman pitifully.

Ruan Dan saw that his wife had already given birth to a son and a daughter with this man, and it seemed that this man was good to her, so he shook his head and sighed, leaving her two hundred taels of silver to bring his ten-year-old son back to Fei Fu.

Just when Huang Sheng had achieved all his goals and was ready to sail back, Zheng Jie, the prince in the north of the Houli Dynasty of Annan, who was equivalent to the Later Li Dynasty's version of Cao Cao, led the Imperial Forest Army to the south again, advancing by water and land, to fight the Quang Nam Kingdom, which had been inherited by Nguyen Phuc Yuan for three generations.

In order to fight against the Later Lê Dynasty, Nguyen Phuc Yuan built dozens of miles of the Great Wall to resist the attack from the north, and he did not hesitate to buy many large and small artillery pieces of the Portuguese to operate the side wall, thinking that he was impregnable.

However, Zheng Jie sent the sailors south to bypass the border wall and approach Feifu Harbor, and the Guangnan Navy Division did not have a few warships to meet in a hurry and did not return to the sea, at this time they were already defenseless like lambs to the slaughter.

When the news of the annihilation of the navy arrived, the small court of Quang Nam was shocked every day, and many ministers suggested that the ruler of the country spend a lot of money to hire the Portuguese to help in the war, which had already been done before that, and they had hired dozens of blonde Westerners to teach their country's warriors to shoot cannons and use arquebuses.

This can be considered, but there will not be more than 1,000 Westerners in Feifu Harbor in total, and the number of men who can fight should be less than 500, and it is impossible for everyone to put down their livelihoods to participate in the civil war of the Hou Li Dynasty!

At this time, a minister named Hu Mingshan came up with a good idea, asking the lord of the country to ask for tribute to the Heavenly Empire, accepting the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and from now on Guangnan became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

Now by chance, there are hundreds of warships of the Ming Navy Division doing business in Feifu Port, let's bribe the Ming official who led the troops, and ask him to first assume the obligation to protect the vassal state, and send warships to block Zheng Jie's sailors going south.

Huang Sheng didn't know that it was just in time for the Civil War of the small and small Yue Kingdom, and he was entertaining dozens of Western merchants on the "Liaodong", not all of them Portuguese, but also Spaniards, British, French, and Romans.

The wine and food of the Ming Dynasty opened the eyes of these Xiyi, and suddenly the music sounded, and the Ming official actually provoked a waltz, and the Westerners were shocked, the music was better than that of their own country, and although the dance was similar to the European court dance, it was more graceful and moving.

The Celestial Empire is truly extraordinary, and their level of civilization seems to be many times stronger than that of Europe! These merchants were fascinated by the desire to visit that civilized country in their lifetimes.

It was at this moment that Hu Minh Son, an envoy sent by Nguyen Phuc Yuan, interrupted the reception, and the guests knew that war was about to break out here.

The Westerners were nervous, and one by one they took their leave and went back to prepare for war, they did not want to attack the northern army of the Great Viet Kingdom, but needed to protect themselves.

Westerners know the nature of these indigenous warlords, and they are ruthless in dealing with their own kind, and they dare not do anything wrong with Westerners.

As long as the Westerners hold their homeland and are not affected by the war, no matter which side of the North and the South wins, their actual interests will be recognized.

Hu Mingshan, the envoy of Guangnan Kingdom, saw the main general of the Ming army, crying and kneeling, begging the Heavenly Empire not to see death and not save him, and asked Lord Huang Sheng's warship to attack the fleet of the Hou Li Dynasty in the north.

Huang Sheng patiently listened to Hu Mingshan's account of the grievances and grievances of the Zheng family and the Ruan family in the Later Li Dynasty for decades, and knew that the sailors of the Zheng family in the north would immediately come to the city, and the lord of Guangnan asked his sailors to meet them.

It's a good plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and the little barbarian will also play IQ.

Fight a dozen arrogant Hou Li Dynasty ministers Zheng Jie, this is completely okay, the country should get along with each other from afar, Guangnan State in the south of Annam and the Ming Dynasty do not border, and then the Li Dynasty and Guangxi do not distinguish each other, of course, to weaken the northern regime of Annam.

How could Huang Sheng make a loss-making deal, and he wanted to kill two birds with one stone by sending troops himself, weakening the military power of the northern part of the Later Li Dynasty while blackmailing the wealth accumulated in the south.

Huang Sheng is not a bastard who sells his grandfather and is not distressed, where will he be said a few good words, praised as the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, and voluntarily became a vassal country and became the emperor, he yelled out to work the people and hurt the money.

The interests of one's own country and people are one's own pursuit, and the enemy is fighting a civil war, so why not do it if you insert a lever and make it difficult for them to win or lose?

Hu Mingshan, the envoy of Guangnan Kingdom, saw that he had said a lot, but this official of the Ming Dynasty just didn't express his position, the situation in Guangnan was critical, and this leisurely and wandering Lord Huang really couldn't care about it.

Hu Mingshan saw that he was moved by emotion, and he knew that he was reasonable, and others were indifferent, so he honestly knew that it was profitable.

He took the initiative to make a price and said: "Lord Huang, the country is tired of the assistance of the army of the Celestial Empire, and is willing to pay 50,000 taels of gold as the salary for the Zheng fleet of the Li Dynasty to attack the army, what do you think?" ”

This Hu Mingshan is very fluent in Chinese, and he can chew words and words, and he looked at Huang Sheng's face with conditional eyes.

50,000 taels of gold is only 400,000 taels of silver for military expenses, think about it beautifully, the warships of Huang Sheng's fleet plus the equipment of the army have exceeded 8 million taels, how much does it cost to train sailors and gunners to be able to fight?

Huang Sheng saw that the minister of Guangnan finally didn't want pies to fall from the sky, but decided to buy cakes to eat, which was a little funny.

He snorted and said, "Master Hu, this official will return to Daming tomorrow, and I don't want to get involved in the fights and killings between you." ”

I don't want to, it's not that I can't and I can't do it, this Hu Mingshan was born as a maritime businessman, and he knows how to talk about business.

He came to Huang Sheng and knelt down and cried: "Lord Huang, the small country of Guangnan is in danger, you can be merciful and lend a hand, the country is willing to pay 80,000 taels of gold." ”

Damn, the barbarian is cunning and big, it seems that it can't be used if you don't induce his thinking.

Huang Sheng took a slow sip of tea and said, "Lord Hu, please get up and speak, the more military salaries the better, this is similar to buying things, and the result of what price you pay is completely different." ”

"Lord Huang, the lower officials don't understand it very well, and I would like to hear about it."

"Fifty thousand taels of gold are in hand, and this official can let the sailor make a bright appearance, so that the northern sailor of the Houli Dynasty will retreat. 80,000 taels can sink a few Northern warships to let them know that it is powerful, if 200,000 taels of gold are in hand, not a single ship from the north will be able to escape. ”

Huang Sheng is definitely not a sky-high asking price, fighting a war is the most wasteful thing in the whole world, and the Ming Dynasty has thrown millions of taels of silver every year in Liaodong, which can be seen.

Huang Sheng just asked the southern regime of the Hou Li Dynasty to spend about 1.5 million taels of silver on military expenses, and he said that he would completely annihilate the northern naval division, which is a good deal with the final word!

How much silver would it take for Ruan Phuc Yuan to buy or build a warship and accumulate the strength to be able to destroy the Northern Sailors?

How much time does it take? There is no guarantee that they will be able to win, and besides, they are already imminent, where is the time?