"Sir, this is too dangerous, we just burned down the inn where the Zheng envoy lived, and this Ruan master sent someone, and the students all felt that it was inappropriate." Hou Fangyu stood next to Su Baiyi.

"I'm afraid of him!"

Guo Cheng snorted, slapped the sword on his waist with his right hand, and said, "If he dares to do anything to us, Lao Tzu will immediately twist his head off and use it as a night pot." ”

The rest of the crowd also had their own opinions.

Su Baiyi looked at the piece of paper in front of him very calmly.

Before dawn, he took Ruan Fulan back from Yazhou, and then he didn't get off the boat. Instead of getting off the boat, he also asked Guo Cheng, who had just burned the envoy of the Zheng family, to bring all the people of the Ming Dynasty onto the ship and make a gesture of leaving.

In this way, one can observe Lord Ruan's attitude towards their destruction of the Zheng envoy, and if they turn their faces, they can leave at any time; Second, it can create an atmosphere of progress that will leave immediately, forcing Quang Nam to make a statement.

If they don't come and stay, Su Baiyi feels that there is no need to stay here, it is better to go to Cham as soon as possible to discuss other business.

The development of things turned out as Su Baiyi expected, and half an hour later, Lord Ruan sent someone and sent a piece of paper, on which only the words "Please invite the envoy of the Great Tomorrow to enter the city to meet", and the seal of the 'General Zhengnan' was used below.

So, on the matter of whether to go into the city alone to negotiate with the Ruan family, Su Baiyi's subordinates and the students expressed their opinions.

When they were almost arguing, Su Baiyi stood up very calmly, took the paper in his hand and said, "Guo Cheng, bring a few guards and follow me into the city." ’

"Sir!" Hou Fangyu was taken aback: "This is a dangerous situation." ”

"Don't worry." Su Baiyi smiled and said, "They don't have that guts." Besides, although I have never met this Ruan Phuc Yuan, judging from his actions, he can be regarded as a generation of heroes, and he is also a mature politician. Now that we have killed the envoy of the Zheng family, it can be said that the boat has been completed, if he turns against us, can he row?

There is no benefit in killing me a Su Baiyi, and it will also attract the thunderous anger of Da Ming, he is not so stupid, you can rest assured. ”

Su Baiyi confidently took Guo Cheng and several sturdy guards off the boat, landed on the shore to change horses, and galloped towards Fuchun City. When I arrived at the gate of the inner city, I was led into the palace by the subordinates, and walked for a long time under the golden cloister before I arrived at a large hall.

Su Baiyi said: "See, although this Ruan lord is not king, but the palace residence has crossed several levels, and he was quite hypocritical when we canonized him." ”

Guo Cheng laughed.

After a while, he came to the main gate of the main hall, and was led in by a small servant, and at a glance he saw Ruan Fulan dressed in colorful clothes, he saw Su Baiyi coming, and happily got up from the chair, and said, "I have seen the great envoy." ”

"The prince is also there?" Su Baiyi's eyes lit up, and he asked again: "I don't know ...... the king of Guangnan."

Ruan Fulan smiled but did not speak.

The chamberlain next to him said to Su Baiyi in stiff Chinese: "The angel doesn't know, the old master is in poor health, and the new master has taken over this morning, and now our master of Guangnan is ......."

"Huh!" Ruan Fulan's face was filled with a smile that could not be hidden, and he said to Su Baiyi: "My father is overworked, so in order not to delay the big event of the angel, he made this temporary decision, and I hope that the envoy will not be blamed." ”

Su Baiyi touched his forehead, and secretly said What kind of plot is this, Lao Tzu has not yet changed, you Guangnan have changed the master, and he couldn't help but feel a little bitter, and said: "Su Mou congratulated him here, but this holy decree was named to the old prince, how can the foreign minister announce the decree?" ”

"It's okay!" Ruan Fulan said: "My father is bedridden, and I hope that the angel will forgive, and this will will be taken over by me, the son." ”

"That's fine!" There was no choice but to do so.

Immediately placed the incense table in the main hall, and Ruan Fulan respectfully knelt on the ground and accepted the holy decree.

"Congratulations to the king of Quang Nam!" Su Baiyi didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly gave a salute.

Ruan Fulan laughed, took Su Baiyi's hand and said: "Lord Su is polite, now that the widow has been canonized by the imperial court, in the future, this Guangnan will always be a foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the widow can also shepherd one side for the Son of Heaven." ”

"It's nature!" Su Baiyi said.

"Master Su, come with the widow!" Ruan Fulan's 'widow' is quite smooth, without the slightest sense of disobedience, as if he was originally the prince.

Su Baiyi followed him to a side hall at the back of the main hall, and the two of them sat down, and Ruan Fulan said: "The widow has received the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, so he has to do his best for the Ming Dynasty. ”

It's time to get to the point.

Su Baiyi sat upright, took a sip of tea and organized his language a little, and then said slowly: "Presumably the king also knows that the disciples of the foreign ministers came here once last time, and what we did in Annan was not big, just two things, one is grain, and the other is rubber trees. Of course, I am a state of etiquette, and I will not force it, but just buy it at the same price. ”

"Well said!" Ruan Fulan said with a smile: "Although we are small in Quang Nam, we also have 100,000 hectares of fertile land, I don't know how much food adults need, and what kind of price can we offer?" ”

100,000 hectares!

Su Baiyi frowned and secretly calculated to himself.

100,000 hectares is 10 million mu, and according to the output of three crops a year in Annam, this mu of land can produce at least 5 or more stones of rice per year, and 10 million mu of land is 50 million stone a year.

The number of people in Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty originally had nearly five million, but after two years of disasters and wars, the population dropped sharply, but there were nearly three million.

According to a person's calculation of two catties of rice a day, he needs nearly 20 million stone of grain a year.

The grain produced in Guangnan seems to meet the requirements, but people themselves have to eat it, and it is impossible to plant it all for you.

However, the art of talking about business is to ask for a sky-high price and then pay it back on the spot.

"20 million stone rice a year." Su Baiyi stretched out two fingers.

"Hi ......" Ruan Fuyuan smiled and said: "Impossible, don't tell your lordship, although we have some fertile land in Guangnan, we have been fighting with the Zheng family all these years, and there is no surplus food. Therefore, in addition to our own people's food, we also have to supply the army, and there is not much left every year. Moreover, although I have 100,000 hectares of fertile land in Quang Nam, this is only on the surface, the actual situation is that Quang Nam has floods every year, and the output in this field is not as rich as Mr. thinks. ”

What Nguyen Phuc Yuan said also makes sense.

Su Baiyi didn't know how much food his army and ordinary people ate every year, but he did know one fact, that is, the floods in Annando.

Even in the 21st century, Vietnam is a big blister all day long, let alone the current situation?

"Therefore, if the widow tightens his belt, he may be able to save five million stones a year, but twenty million stones is really not!" Ruan Fuyuan made a wry smile and waved his hand at the same time.

"It's not enough, five million stones is too much!" Su Baiyi shook his head and said: "As far as the foreign ministers know, the ancestor of the great king has been working hard in Guangnan for three generations, although he has grasped the hearts of the people in this land of Guangnan, but this land of Guangnan has not yet been completely civilized, the people live in many fish forests, and there are few people who govern the fields. ”

That's a good idea.

However, Ruan Fuyuan is the emperor of Quang Nam, although he is willing to be called a foreign vassal by the Ming Dynasty, but he is definitely unwilling to let the Ming interfere in his agricultural internal affairs, so he laughed and said: "The kindness of the adults is not appreciated, teaching agriculture and mulberry is the work of many years, and it can not be achieved overnight, so let's do it, the widow tries not to violate the agricultural time, but at most he can only take out eight million stones." ”

"That's it!" Su Baiyi sighed, there is no smooth sailing in the world, and being able to solve one-third of the rice in Guangnan is already a great harvest: "Thank you, foreign minister, King Guangnan." ”

"Lord Angel is gracious." Ruan Fuyuan asked people to refill the tea and said, "It's only eight million stones, but this price?" ”

"Huh!" Su Baiyi took a sip of water and said, "As far as the foreign minister knows, the price of rice in Guangnan is one tael of silver and four stones, I don't know if it is?" ”

Scarcity is precious, this is an eternal truth.

The land of Annam is fertile, and the rice is harvested three times a year, and there is a lot of rice, but it is a pity that there are few silver mines in Guangnan, and the silver in the real country is not enough, so it has caused the price of rice to be low, which is generally only half of the price of rice in the Ming Dynasty.

Eight million stone rice per year, two million taels of silver can be solved.

"Hehe......" Ruan Fuyuan didn't think so, he said with a smile: "As far as the widow knows, the price of rice in Daming is one tael of silver and two stones, I don't know if it's true?" ”

"What the king said is not bad, but the foreign minister came to Guangnan to buy rice, not the king to transport the rice to Daming to sell, so the price of Guangnan rice is still prevailing! The foreign minister thought that it was better to have four stones. ”

"Four stones are four stones!" Ruan Fuyuan didn't suffer anyway, he patted the table and said: "The price follows the envoy, and the widow doesn't care, but this tax on customs cannot be taken lightly." ”

"What does the king think?" Su Baiyi is a modern person, and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with Ruan Fuyuan's proposal of taxation.

"Daming buys eight million stone rice from us every year, discounted by two million taels of silver, what this king means is that an additional one million taels of silver is needed to offset the customs duties of my Guangnan!" Nguyen Phuc Nguyen became very serious.

"Hehe......" Su Baiyi sneered and said, "Draw one in two?" The king's tax is not kind, Guangnan is a foreign domain, so it needs to pay taxes according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, with a total of 70,000 taels of silver. ”

"Lord Angel laughed!" Ruan Fulan said: "As far as the widow knows, the general tax of this Ming Dynasty is one in thirty, but it is a high tax for the customs, it is said to be one in five miles. ”

"One out of ten miles, plus 200,000 taels of silver every year, if there is more, the foreign minister will not be able to be the master, and he must go back to Beijing to ask His Majesty." Su Baiyi arched his hand towards the north.

Ruan Fuyuan frowned and thought for a while, and readily agreed: "In this way, let's count it according to ten miles." ”